Telling Ruins in Latin America |
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| Editor:
| Lazzara, Michael J.
Unruh, Vicky |
| Series title: | New Concepts in Latino American Cultures New Directions in L Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-55711-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.