The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms

Guillermina De Ferrari is Halls-Bascom Professor of Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has published extensively on Caribbean Literatures and Visual Cultures. She is the author of Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (2007), Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba (2014), and Apertura: Photography in Cuba Today (2015). She is coeditor of the Routledge series Literature and Contemporary Thought. Mariano Siskind is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (2014), Rumo a um cosmopolitismo da perda. Ensaio sobre o fim do mundo (2020) and The Modernist Songbook. Standards y variaciones sobre formas muertas (2021). He has edited Homi Bhabha's Nuevas minorías, nuevos derechos (2013) and has coedited with Sylvia Molloy Poéticas de la distancia. Adentro y afuera de la literatura argentina (2006); with Gesine Müller, World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise (2019). In 2022 he will publish the collection of essays Dislocaciones y fin de eso que ya no es mundo, and is working on another one, tentatively titled About the End of the World: The Demise of Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Culture.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind

Part I

Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations






Avant-Gardes in Latin America: A Polemical Intervention on Historical and Neo-Vanguardias
Fernando J. Rosenberg






A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body
Javier Guerrero






Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work
Alejandra Laera






Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions
Verónica Gago






Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0
Sayak Valencia






Formations of Sense
Horacio Legrás






What Is Popular Art?
Karen Benezra






Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms
Sarah Ann Wells






Literature and Revolution in Latin America
Juan E. De Castro






The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature
Benjamin Loy






The Political Art of Memory in Latin America
Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett






Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures
Arturo Arias






Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations
Victoria Liendo






Gisèle Freund’s Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography
Alejandra Uslenghi



Part II

Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies




Peopling Latin Americanism
Fernando Degiovanni






Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War
Jesús Cano Reyes






The Orient, the Rim, and the World
Rosario Hubert






Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection
Alexandra Ortiz Wallner






Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries
Mariano Siskind






The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form
Jens Andermann






Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age
Bruno Carvalho






Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo
Esther Whitfield






Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture
Charlotte Rogers



Part III

A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations




Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows
Lisa Blackmore






Ecocriticism
Gisela Heffes






Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film Petróleo cubano
Rachel Price






The Afterlives of Biopolitics
Gabriel Giorgi






Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nicole Fadellin






Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation
Persephone Braham






Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros






A Horizontal Hospitality
Guillermina De Ferrari






Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes






The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa
Cecilia Macón






Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America
Anke Birkenmeier






Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetry and Prose Fiction
Idelber Avelar






The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night
Luís Madureira






Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy
Gareth Williams



Part IV

Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices




Distorting Latinamericanism
Erin Graff Zivin






Sensationalism
Sergio Delgado Moya






Nature and Labor in Literary Form
Héctor Hoyos






Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital
Paloma Celis Carbajal






Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs
Gesine Müller






Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Antonia Viu




Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature
Michelle Clayton






New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil
Falina Enríquez






Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations
Marcela A. Fuentes






Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts
Natalia Brizuela






Media Archaeology and e-Literature
Phillip Penix-Tadsen






Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking

Scott Weintraub

Index