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Telling Ruins in Latin America

By Michael J. Lazzara , Vicky Unruh

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
0230605222, 9780230605220
LCC
F1403.3 .T45 2009
Open Library ID
OL22843816M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2500591 bytes)
Series
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Pages
288\288
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

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.

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