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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Telling Ruins
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What Are We Doing Here?: Ruins, Performance, Meditation
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Whose Ruins?: Ownership and Cross-Cultural Mappings
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The Ruins of Fragile Ceasefires: Scenes of Loss and Memory
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About this book
Reviews
"The twenty-one essays in this book are beautifully written, meticulously edited, and carefully intertwined. Telling Ruins in Latin America brings together a formidable list of scholars, artists, and thinkers from Latin America and the United States to think about ruins and the role of memory to portray modernity s failed versions of progress, and how Latin American vibrant cultural projects reshape the ruined landscape by facing and voicing its cracks and holes." - A Contracorriente
"Ruins theory has escaped the field of archeology (which is a very different case) to become an important emergent field of study internationally.Unruh and Lazzara's new project brings together a stellar list of top thinkers to offer critical Latin American voices to this burgeoning analytic category. Deftly inserting themselves into an international discussion associated with figures like Benjamin and Agamben, the authors of this collection take us on a fascinating journey through ancient and modern ruins, both physical and fictional." - Debra A. Castillo, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University
"We have come to regard ruins as the master trope of a modernity that knows itself to be hollow. The present volume shows that cultural production in Latin America has always resided at the far side of that knowledge, and that its past and current incandescence derives not in small measure froman imaginary in which ruins play a most significant role - perhaps the leading one." - Carlos J. Alonso, Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
About the authors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Telling Ruins in Latin America
Editors: Michael J. Lazzara, Vicky Unruh
Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230623279
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62327-9Published: 20 July 2009
Series ISSN: 1554-4028
Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Topics: Cultural Studies, Film History, North American Literature, Architecture, general, Arts, Latin American Culture