| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 373 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Luis H. Castañeda and Javier F. González -- An alternative nation building project: the depiction of Ángel Vicente Peñaloza in Eduardo Gutiérrez's historical Folletines / Gisela Salas Carrillo -- Transnational panic: criminal cults in "Elena Garrigó" and René's Flesh / Pilar Cabrera Fonte -- La Montaña Mágica: representations of HIV/AIDS from the sanatorium / Óscar A. Pérez -- Víctor Hugo Viscarra: the dog life of the human pack: reflections on the limits of community as a promise of emancipation / Irina Feldman -- Street dwellers and youth gangs as war machines in Colombian literature and film / Carlos-Germán Van Der Linde -- In the matrix of contemporary Spanish squatter communities: navigating through utopian landscapes of hospitality and dystopian landscapes of hostility in Okupada by Care Santos / Diana Palardy -- Alternative communities in Lavapiés: (dis)encounters between Spain and Cuba / Ana Corbalán -- "Anarchy is a literary thing": Mateu Morral, Pío Baroja and the ephemeral community of 1906 / Xavier M. Dapena -- Deciphering Macedonio: Macedonio Fernández's project to found an alternative community in Museu de la novela de la Eterna (Primera novela buena) / Federico Fridman -- Transient communities: authority and emancipation in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta Roja / Juan García Oyervides -- Two Peruvian circles of artists: artistic communities and globalization in the novels of Iván Thays and Rodrigo Núñez Carvallo / Luis H. Castañeda -- A cellular literary model: globalization and transnational flows in Latin American contemporary fictions / Carlos Yushimito -- Cultura Profética: across communities of resistance and insistence / Geraldine Monterroso -- The literature of the Onda: imagined alternative communities in 1960s Mexico / Javier F. González -- The representation of the Mexican counterculture movement in Pasaban en silencio nuestros dioses by Héctor Manjarrez / Salvador Fernández -- From manifesto to manifestation: the Infrarrealista movement on the margins of Mexican literary culture / John Burns -- Porn-themes of dominance and submission: perverse communities in Alberto Chimal's los esclavos / Salvador L. Raggio |
| Summary |
What are Hispanic alternative communities and how are they represented in literature, film, and popular music? This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, youth gangs, musical bands, packs of marginal urban dwellers, groups of immigrants, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, perhaps akin to secret societies plotting to take control of society. These groups usually exist within a larger and established community - typically, the nation-state - though maintaining with it complicated relat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Communities in literature.
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism
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Communities -- Latin America
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Community life in literature.
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Literature & literary studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Community life in literature
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Communities
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Communities in literature
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Latin American literature
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Castañeda, Luis, 1982- editor.
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González, Javier, editor
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| ISBN |
9781443812788 |
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1443812781 |
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