Telling ruins in Latin America

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Telling ruins in Latin America

Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh, editors

(New concepts in Latino American cultures)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

  • : hbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • M.J.Lazzara & V.Unruh Ruins in Translation
  • S.Molloy The Ruins of the Present
  • C.Evoked & S.Castro-Klaren Scribbling on the Wreck
  • F.Masiello 'Oh Tiempo Tus Piramides': Ruins in Borges
  • D.Balderston Modernity in Ruins: Modernist Architecture and the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985
  • R.Gallo Tlatelolco in Mexican Cultural Production: From Ruins to Reconstruction
  • S.M.Cypess Second Thoughts on Mourning: Postdictatorship as Ruin and History
  • I.Avelar Images From Ruins: Art and Memory after the Holocaust and Argentina's 'Dirty War'
  • S.Lorenzano Archaeology of Terror
  • D.Taylor Pinochet's Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest
  • M.J.Lazzara Maps without Referents: The Erasure of Known Territories
  • G.Kirkpatrick A Tale of Two Ruins: the UNE Buildings of Rio de Janeiro
  • V.Langland Machu Picchu Recycled
  • R.Harrison After Manchay Tiempo: Space, Memory, Reconciliation
  • J.Lane Voices of the Dead: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho
  • L.Bayers Fernando Vallejo's Ruinous Heterotopias
  • A.Arias Tales and Tallies of Remains: Ruins in Post-Soviet Cuba
  • V.Unruh Reflections
  • D.Eltit , A.J.Ponteand & J.Villoro

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