The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms

This Companion brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms ****brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume.

Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture.

This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

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Guillermina De Ferrari is Halls-Bascom Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has published extensively on Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (2007), Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (2014), and Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today (2015). She is coeditor of the Routledge series Literature and Contemporary Thought.

Mariano Siskind is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (2014), Rumo a um cosmopolitismo da perda. Ensaio sobre o fim do mundo (2020) and The Modernist Songbook. Standards y variaciones sobre formas muertas (2021). He has edited Homi Bhabha's Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos (2013) and has coedited with Sylvia Molloy Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006); with Gesine Müller, World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise (2019). In 2022 he will publish the collection of essays Dislocaciones y fin de eso que ya no es mundo, and is working on another one, tentatively titled About the End of the World: The Demise of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture.

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This Companion brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind

Part I

Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations

1. Avant-Gardes in Latin America: A Polemical Intervention on Historical and Neo-Vanguardias Fernando J. Rosenberg

2. A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body Javier Guerrero

3. Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work Alejandra Laera

4. Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions Verónica Gago

5. Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0 Sayak Valencia

6. Formations of Sense
   Horacio Legrás

7. What Is Popular Art? Karen Benezra

8. Work's Figures, Work's Forms Sarah Ann Wells

9. Literature and Revolution in Latin America Juan E. De Castro

10. The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature Benjamin Loy

11. The Political Art of Memory in Latin America Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett

12. Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures Arturo Arias

13. Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations Victoria Liendo

14. Gisèle Freund's Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography
    Alejandra Uslenghi ****

    Part II

    Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies

15. Peopling Latin Americanism Fernando Degiovanni

16. Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War Jesús Cano Reyes

17. The Orient, the Rim, and the World Rosario Hubert

18. Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection Alexandra Ortiz Wallner

19. Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries Mariano Siskind

20. The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form Jens Andermann

21. Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age Bruno Carvalho

22. Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo Esther Whitfield

23. Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture Charlotte Rogers

    **** Part III

    A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations

24. Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows Lisa Blackmore

25. Ecocriticism Gisela Heffes

26. Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié's Film Petróleo cubano
    Rachel Price

27. The Afterlives of Biopolitics Gabriel Giorgi

28. Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean Nicole Fadellin

29. Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation Persephone Braham

30. Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures Odette Casamayor-Cisneros

31. A Horizontal Hospitality Guillermina De Ferrari

32. Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

33. The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa Cecilia Macón

34. Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America Anke Birkenmeier

35. Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges's Poetry and Prose Fiction Idelber Avelar

36. The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night Luís Madureira

37. Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy Gareth Williams

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    Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices

38. Distorting Latinamericanism Erin Graff Zivin

39. Sensationalism Sergio Delgado Moya

40. Nature and Labor in Literary Form Héctor Hoyos

41. Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital Paloma Celis Carbajal

42. Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs Gesine Müller

43. Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antonia Viu

44. Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature Michelle Clayton

45. New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil Falina Enríquez

46. Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations Marcela A. Fuentes

47. Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts Natalia Brizuela

48. Media Archaeology and e-Literature
    Phillip Penix-Tadsen

49. Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking Scott Weintraub

Index