The utopian impulse in Latin America

The utopian impulse in Latin America

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An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selectedessays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today. KIM BEAUCHESNE is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. . ALESSANDRA SANTOS is Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, USA. INDICE: Introduction: The Theory and Practice of the Utopian Impulse in Latin America;' K.Beauchesne' & 'A.Santos' - PART I: FOUNDATIONAL UTOPIAS - Utopia in Latin America: Cartographies and Paradigms; 'B.Pastor' - Barataria from the Perspective of Hispanic American 'Colonial' Studies: Contributions for a Reading of (Counter)Utopia in the Quijote and the New World; 'J.Antonio Mazzotti ' - PART II: UTOPIA AND MODERNITY - Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exhibition;' A.Uslenghi ' - Ecocannibalism: The Greening of Antropofagia; 'O.Cisneros' - Eulalia in Utopia: Urban Space, Modernity, and Gendered Typologies in Rubén Darío and Hilda Hilst; 'J.Read' - PART III: FEMINIST UTOPIAS - Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán's Pérégrinations d'une paria; 'G.Heffes ' - Revolution Interrupted: The 'Women of April' and the Utopia of National Liberation; 'W.Rivera-Rivera' - PART IV: UTOPIA AND COUNTERCULTURE - Jorge Mautner and Countercultural Utopia in Brazil; 'C.Dunn ' - Spatial Effects: Navigating the City in Cildo Meireles's Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira; 'E.Shtromberg ' - PART V: REVOLUTIONARY UTOPIAS AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY - Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias: From Banditry to Party in Jorge Amado's Seara Vermelha;' J.Pablo Dabove ' - Utopia and the Politics of Memory; 'D.Sorensen ' - The Innocent Eye: Children's Perspectives on the Utopias of the Seventies (O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, Machuca, and Kamchatka); 'R.De Grandis' - PART VI: UTOPIA AND ETHNICITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY - Urgent (Anti)Spectacles of Critical Hope; 'C.Melo '- Recent Peruvian Quechua Poetry: Beyond Andean and Neoliberal Utopias; 'U.Juan Zevallos-Aguilar - ' -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-10352-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 320
  • Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés