"We, the Barbarians": Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Mexican Studies)

"We, the Barbarians" embarks on a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction: Yuri Herrera, Fernanda Melchor, and Valeria Luiselli. Originally published in Mexico in 2021, this work is divided into three parts, one for each author's narrative production. The book analyzes all of the literary works published by Herrera, Melchor, and Luiselli from the beginning of their writing careers until 2021, allowing for a diachronic interpretation of their respective narrative projects as well as for comparative approaches to their aesthetic and ideological contours. Characterized by the fragmentation of civil society and the decomposition of the myths that accompanied the consolidation of the modern nation, Mexican visual and literary arts have explored a myriad of representational avenues to approach the phenomena of violence, institutional decay, and political instability. The critical and theoretical approaches in "We, the Barbarians" explore a variety of alternative symbolic representations of topics such as nationalism, community, and affect in times impacted by systemic violence, precariousness, and radical inequality. Moraña perceives the negotiations between regional/local imaginaries and global scenarios characterized by the devaluation and resignification of life, both at individual and collective levels. Though it uses three authors as its focus, this book seeks to more broadly theorize the question of the relationship between literature and the social in the twenty-first century.

Literature & Fiction

Moraña, Mabel

History & Criticism

Vanderbilt University Press

An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa: Dilemmas and Assemblages (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In The Monster as War Machine, European monster tradition intersects with American mass-media production and new philosophical approaches to examine topics of community, political power, alternative representations of race and gender, identity, hybridity, political agency, and collective subjectivity. In this book, cultural theory, close readings of literary texts, and interpretations of visual materials come together, covering a wide and diversified cultural territory.Some of the authors included in this study are Agamben, Badiou, Baudrillard, Deleuze, Esposito, Foucault, Freud, Haraway, Hardt, Kristeva, Marx, Negri, and Zižek, whose works illuminate the disruptive and at times emancipatory role of monstrosity as a representation of excess, instinct, evil, truth, and rebelliousness.This book is an important resource for those studying film, contemporary literature, and popular culture.This book is in the Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures Series headed by Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Monster as War Machine (Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures)

Cambria Press

Nosotros, los bárbaros: Tres narradores mexicanos en el siglo XXI (Spanish Edition)

Bonilla Artigas Editores

Moraña articula, en torno a la figura del monstruo, escondida tras alegorías, metáforas e hipérboles, las múltiples perspectivas de la filosofía, la historia del arte, la crítica cultural y la antropología. Un amplio análisis de los tópicos de la anomalía, la corporalidad, el terror y lo sublime que se adentra en los innumerables significados de lo monstruoso en la cultura occidental.

El monstruo como máquina de guerra (Spanish Edition)

Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, S.L.

Un ensayo transdisciplinario y multifacético sobre la importancia del cuerpo en el pensamiento occidental. ¿De qué tradiciones multiculturales es heredero nuestro cuerpo? ¿Qué aspectos vinculan cuerpo individual y cuerpo social, cuerpo humano y cuerpo de ley, cuerpo sexual y cuerpo del delito? ¿Cómo entender la salud, la enfermedad, la muerte, los rituales de la sexualidad, el tratamiento del cadáver, sin analizar los conceptos vigentes e invisibles de la corporalidad? Pensar el cuerpo. Historia, materialidad y símbolo constituye una incursión transdisciplinaria y multifacética en la densidad del pensamiento occidental sobre lo corporal, a través de las épocas. El libro comprende aspectos estéticos, políticos, filosóficos, sociales y científicos que contribuyen a promover la imagen del cuerpo y de lo post\-humano como constelación de sentidos, como espectáculo y como plataforma para la implementación de estrategias de control y de goce, de preservación y de castigo, de agresión y de solidaridad comunitaria.\nENGLISH:\nA multifaceted essay on the importance of the body in Western thought. This book includes aesthetic, political, philosophical, social and scientific aspects that contribute to promoting the image of the body and of the post\-human as a constellation of senses, as a spectacle and as a platform for the implementation of control and enjoyment strategies, preservation and punishment, aggression and community solidarity.

Pensar el cuerpo: Historia, materialidad y símbolo (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Herder Editorial

From the configuration of Empire in the colonial period to the multiple facets of modern coloniality, this book offers a challenging approach to the developments and effects of imperial domination and neocolonial rule in Latin America. Thought of as a contribution to current debates on postcolonialism and covering an ample range of topics, geocultural fields, and historical scenarios, Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America provides indispensable materials to the study of the formation and representation of colonial and modern subjectivities, the role of historical accounts, cultural practices, and symbolic representation (literary writing, oral narratives, visual images, and artifacts) through which some of the parameters of colonized epistemologies become apparent to the European Other.

Revisiting the colonial question in Latin America

History

Jáuregui, Carlos A.

Americas

Compilacion de analisis sobre cultura contemporanea que parte del cambio social como elemento primordial para pensar la cultura en un momento de conflicto marcado por la transicion desde la modernidad al capitalismo tardio. Hablar de crisis en el campo del latinoamericanismo resulta ya un lugar comun, casi vacio de significado. Sin embargo, la alusion al cambio social como elemento fundamental para pensar la cultura a que se alude en el titulo de este libro apela justamente al sentido de modificacion profunda que atraviesa la nocion de crisis, y tambien a la incertidumbre que acompaña la transicion que se observa entre el mundo moderno y el que responde a los determinantes del capitalismo tardio. Este libro se refiere a las coexistencias y simultaneidades de ambos registros, que se combinan en la experiencia social latinoamericana y en los productos culturales que, con diversas mediaciones simbolicas, dan cuenta de los conflictos del presente.

Cultura y cambio social en América Latina (South by Midwest) (Spanish Edition)

An interdisciplinary tour de force that examines past and present to consider how new forms of knowledge production, epistemic plurality, and intellectual and political movements are bringing sweeping change today.

Rethinking intellectuals in Latin America

Gustafson, Bret

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"We, the Barbarians": Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Mexican Studies)

"We, the Barbarians": Three Mexican Writers in the Twenty-First Century (Critical Mexican Studies)

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa: Dilemmas and Assemblages (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

The Monster as War Machine (Cambria Latin American Literatures and Cultures)

Nosotros, los bárbaros: Tres narradores mexicanos en el siglo XXI (Spanish Edition)

El monstruo como máquina de guerra (Spanish Edition)

Pensar el cuerpo: Historia, materialidad y símbolo (Spanish Edition)

Revisiting the colonial question in Latin America

Cultura y cambio social en América Latina (South by Midwest) (Spanish Edition)

Rethinking intellectuals in Latin America