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1 online resource (vi, 307 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
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 Rub̌n Dar̕o and Hilda Hilst; J. Read -- PART III: FEMINIST UTOPIAS -- Southern Displacements in Flora Trist̀n's P̌řgrinations 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 F̕sica: Caixas de Bras̕lia/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 Sa̕ram de F̌rias, 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 |
| Summary |
An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today. With an interdisciplinary approach, chapters discuss the notion of a utopian impulse in literature, music, performance, cinema, visual arts, critical theory, cultural studies, and political science. Among the many questions the book grapples with are how the utopian impulse is reconfigured over time, especially in new cultural fields and situations, and how Latin American utopias should be contextualized in the so-called global era |
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"The present volume explores the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production. The carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today. With an interdisciplinary approach, the texts included discuss the notion of a utopian impulse in literature, music, performance, cinema, visual arts, critical theory, cultural studies, and political science. Among the many questions the book grapples with are how the utopian impulse is reconfigured over time, especially in new cultural fields and situations, and how Latin American utopias should be contextualized in the so-called global era"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Utopias -- Latin America
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Utopias in literature.
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Utopias in art.
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utopian literature.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Anarchism.
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Utopias
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Utopias in art
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Utopias in literature
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beauchesne, Kim, 1976-
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Santos, Alessandra, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780230339613 |
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0230339611 |
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9780230103528 |
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0230103529 |
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9781349287857 |
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1349287857 |
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9781349287840 |
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1349287849 |
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