México Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9783034322430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 374 str.

Erica Segre

Opis

These essays explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of 'negrura-oscuridad' in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile staging of atrocities and the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic.

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ERICA SEGRE (ed.)

Introduction: La negrura- oscuridad y su imagen: Rethinking the Poetics of Darkness and Dark Materials in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture in Mexico

DEBBIE NAGAO

Proscenium of the Dark: Darkness and Liminality in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

ANDREW CHEN

Blindness, Darkness and the Penitential Religious Experience: Practices and Imagery from the Flagellant Confraternal Contexts in Italy, Spain and New Mexico

GERARDO SUTER

Blink: A Path to the Other Darkness

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

Los materiales ajenos: Re-escritura, comunalidad y desapropiación/ Estranged Materials: Re-writing, Communality and Dis-appropriation (Cambridge 2015)

Escrituras comunalistas/On Communalistic Writing

ELSA M. TREVIÑO

¡Basta de luz!: Configurations of Revelatory Darkness in Twenty-First Century Fiction

STEVEN BOLDY

Trabajos del poeta del reino: Dark Power and Art in Yuri Herrera and Octavio Paz

MARCOS RICO DOMÍNGUEZ

Oscuro artefacto de la memoria: Huecos, pliegues y cortes en Amuleto (1999) de Roberto Bolaño/Obscure Artefact of Memory: Gaps, Folds and Cuts in Roberto Bolaño's Amulet (1999)

JOHN KRANIAUSKAS

A Monument to the Unknown Worker: Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (2004) as Noir and as Installation

JOSÉ LUIS BARRIOS

De estupidez y oscuridad: La sujeción y subversión en el cine y la literatura en México/ Of Stupidity and Darkness: Subjection and Subversion in Mexican Film and Literature

GEOFFREY KANTARIS

Techno-Noir in the Borderlands: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer (2008)

ROBIN GREELEY

Narco-Noir: A Quotidian Aesthetic Taxonomy of Expressive Violence (with reference to Moris [Israel Meza Moreno])

MARA POLGOVSKY

After Darkness: Sense-Expansion and the Aesthetics of New Media

O autorze

Erica Segre is Senior Lecturer in Latin American and Hispanic Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She specializes in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, art and thought and twentieth-century and contemporary visual culture. She is the author of Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture (2007) and the editor of Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture (2013).