Screen LibraryTelling ruins in Latin America
'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 analy...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New concepts in Latino American cultures |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230623279 |
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'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 Hi |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9780230605220 9780230623279 : 0230623271 : |
| CLC: | G05 |
| Contents: | Introduction - Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh * Ruins in Translation - Sylvia Molloy * The Ruins of the Present - Cuzco Evoked and Sara Castro-Klaren * Scribbling on the Wreck - Francine Masiello * "Oh Tiempo Tus Piramides": Ruins in Borges - Daniel Balderston * Modernity in Ruins: Modernist Architecture and the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985 - Ruben Gallo * Tlatelolco in Mexican Cultural Production: From Ruins to Reconstruction - Sandra M. Cypess * Second Thoughts on Mourning: Postdictatorship as Ruin and History - Idelber Avelar * Images From Ruins: Art and Memory after the Holocaust a |