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Capitalism and its Discontents

Power and Accumulation in Latin-American Culture

Author(s) John Kraniauskas

Hardback - £55.00

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies, History

Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies

January 2017 · 320 pages ·216x138mm

· Hardback - 9781783169542
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· eBook - epub - 9781783169566

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Contents
About the Author(s)

Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.

AcknowledgementsPrologue by Roger BartraIntroductionPart I: Walter Benjamin in Latin AmericaChapter 1: Beware Mexican Ruins! One-Way Street and the Colonial UnconsciousChapter 2: Laughing at `Americanism': Benjamin, Mariategui, ChaplinChapter 3: A Small Andean History of Photography: Yawar fiestaPart II: The `Malsoblestar' of LiteratureChapter 4: The Politics of El Senor Presidente: Notes on Textual `Maldoblestar'Chapter 5: From Ideology to Culture: Subalternization and Montage (Yo el Supremo's History)Chapter 6: Return, Melancholy and the Crisis of the Future: El fiscal by Augusto Roa BastosChapter 7: The State is a Monkey: El apando by Jose RevueltasChapter 8: Porno-Revolution: El fiord and the Eva-Peronist StateChapter 9: Critical Closeness: the Chronicle-Essays of Carlos MonsivaisChapter 10: Noir into History: James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover

Author(s): John Kraniauskas

John Kraniauskas is Professor of Latin American Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. A founding co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, he writes widely on Latin American literary and cultural studies, political philosophy and cultural theory.