| Telling Ruins in Latin America 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Lazzara, M. (Editor), Unruh, V. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230605222 ISBN-13: 9780230605220 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2009 Annotation: As a merger of past, present and future, and as a material embodiment of change, the ruin offers a fertile locale for competing cultural stories about historical events, political projects, and the constitution of communities. A fascination with pre-Columbian ruins already marked Latin American nineteenth-century nation-building projects as well as early twentieth-century artistic experiments that linked avant-garde originality with imagined new beginnings. This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Art | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 980.012 |
| LCCN: 2008054703 |
| Series: New Concepts in Latino American Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation. |