Poetics of race in Latin America / edited by Mabel Moraña.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moraña, Mabel, editor.

Series:

Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces--Political activity.

Armed Forces.

Military relations.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Anthem Press, [2022]

Summary:

Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.

Contents:

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Poetics of Race and the "Color Line"

Part I Prisms of Race: Caribbean and Brazilian Encounters

Chapter 1. Blackness, Postslavery, and What Never Ceases Not to Write Itself

Chapter 2. Etched in Sugar, Soil, Metal and Blood: The Plantationocene and the Afterlives of Racialized Plantation in Contemporary Cuban Art

Chapter 3. Policies of Repair in "Black" Female Poetics: Nancy Morejón and Astrid Roemer

Chapter 4. The Rise of the Black Hero: Heroic Imagination and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Part II Coloring Otherness in Mexico

Chapter 5. Phantasms of Our Deluded Eyes: Race in the Era of Cinematic Movement

Chapter 6. Marking Race and Class Privilege in Contemporary Mexican Cinema

Chapter 7. The Limits of Nihonjinron: Issei Immigrants' Literary Representation of Japaneseness in Mexico

Part III Indigenous Subjects: Representation and Resistance

Chapter 8. What Indigenous Literatures tell us About Race

Chapter 9. Yuyachkani's Andinismo: Performing (toward) a Poetics of Race

Chapter 10. Antiracist Spatial Narratives in Daniel Munduruku's Crônicas De São Paulo: Indigenous Place-Names and Migration in the Paulista Capital City

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83998-478-3

OCLC:

1330935997