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. INDICE: Introduction; M.J.Lazzara ; V.Unruh - Ruins in Translation; S.Molloy - The Ruins of the Present; C.Evoked ; S.Castro-Klarén - Scribbling on the Wreck; F.Masiello - 'Oh Tiempo Tus Pirámides': Ruins in Borges; D.Balderston -Modernity in Ruins: Modernist Architecture and the Mexico City Earthquake of 1985; R.Gallo - Tlatelolco in Mexican Cultural Production: From Ruins to Reconstruction; S.M.Cypess - Second Thoughts on Mourning: Postdictatorship as Ruin and History; I.Avelar - Images From Ruins: Art and Memory after the Holocaust and Argentina's 'Dirty War'; S.Lorenzano - Archaeology of Terror; D.Taylor - Pinochet's Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest; M.J.Lazzara - Maps without Referents: The Erasure of Known Territories; G.Kirkpatrick - A Tale of Two Ruins: the UNE Buildings of Rio de Janeiro; V.Langland - Machu Picchu Recycled; R.Harrison- After Manchay Tiempo: Space, Memory, Reconciliation; J.Lane - Voices of theDead: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho; L.Bayers - Fernando Vallejo's Ruinous Heterotopias; A.Arias - Tales and Tallies of Remains: Ruins in Post-Soviet Cuba; V.Unruh - Reflections; D.Eltit , A.J.Ponteand ; J.Villoro.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60522-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés