Poetics of Race in Latin America

Edited by Mabel Moraña

Publication date:

14 June 2022

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839984761

Poetics of Race constitutes a critically and theoretically innovative analysis of racial and ethnic dynamics in Latin America, and their symbolic – artistic, ideological – representation. The book illustrates the relevance of cultural and racial minorities in different national contexts (particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Andean region and the Caribbean) through the study of literary, filmic and visual productions that depict otherness, marginalization and popular resistance. The book focuses on negritude, indigenous cultures, andinismo, performance and cinematic discourses in which racial issues are displayed, elaborated and symbolized. The various critical approaches utilized in this volume also contribute to expand methodological horizons in the field while contributing to widening the corpus of literary texts and cultural practices in this area of studies.

Notes on Contributors; Introduction The Poetics of Race and the “Color Line”; Mabel Moraña, Part I. PRISMS OF RACE: CARIBBEAN AND BRAZILIAN ENCOUNTERS; Chapter 1. Blackness, Postslavery, and What Never Ceases Not to Write Itself; Horacio Legrás, Chapter 2. Etched in Sugar, Soil, Metal and Blood: The Plantationocene and the Afterlives of Racialized Plantation in Contemporary Cuban Art; Elzbieta Sklodowska, Chapter 3. Policies of Repair in “Black” Female Poetics: Nancy Morejón and Astrid Roemer; Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, Chapter 4. The Rise of the Black Hero: Heroic Imagination and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Brazil; María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, Part II. COLORING OTHERNESS IN MEXICO; Chapter 5. Phantasms of Our Deluded Eyes: Race in the Era of Cinematic Movement; Adela Pineda Franco, Chapter 6. Marking Race and Class Privilege in Contemporary Mexican Cinema; Mónica García Blizzard, Chapter 7. The Limits of Nihonjinron: Issei Immigrants’ Literary Representation of Japaneseness in Mexico; Ignacio López-Calvo, Part III. INDIGENOUS SUBJECTS: REPRESENTATION AND RESISTANCE; Chapter 8. What Indigenous Literatures Tell Us about Race; Arturo Arias, Chapter 9. Yuyachkani’s Andinismo: Performing (toward) a Poetics of Race; Anne Lambright, Chapter 10. Antiracist Spatial Narratives in Daniel Munduruku’s Crônicas De São Paulo: Indigenous Place-Names and Migration in the Paulista Capital City; Christian Elguera; Index

“This book offers a series of updated essays on how the concept of race is configured in peculiar ways in literature, cinema and other cultural expressions from Latin America during the modern period. It is a useful and recommendable compilation of outstanding authors in the international academy.” – José Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University, USA.