Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America (Open access titles) - Softcover

Niall Geraghty (editor) & Adriana Laura Massidda (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190885748X ISBN 13: 9781908857484

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2018

Synopsis

The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of 'marginality' in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportunity, this volume analyses the production of new art forms, political organizations and subjectivities emerging from the urban margins in Latin America, neither condemning nor idealizing the effects they produce.

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About the Author

Niall H.D. Geraghty is Associate Professor in Latin American Cultural Studies at University College London. Niall’s first book was The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press: 2019). He has published articles and book chapters on literature and film from Latin America, with a particular interest in memory, urban culture, and religion in the region. He is currently working on a project involving a radical re-examination of the work of Argentine artist León Ferrari (1920–2013) which also explores the interrelations between politics and religion in twentieth-century Argentina, and the potential correlations between contemporary philosophy and liberation theology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190885748X
• ISBN 13: 9781908857484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300