Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2022.2128729
Laura Podalsky
This essay examines what affect studies can contribute to the analysis of violence and audiovisual media in twenty-first-century Mexico, paying particular attention to the temporal nature of violence and of time-based media. Does the photo of a dead child and her father on the Mexico-US border, as seen on the front page of a newspaper, allow viewers to perceive the slow violence of neoliberal economies and contemporary immigration policies? Or does it merely encourage shallow cries of pity? Given today’s saturated and vertiginously paced mediascape, do feature films have any role to play in encouraging audiences to viscerally recognise the duration and weight of state repression? In order to adequately analyse the complex sensorial dynamics of audiovisual media, this essay begins by proposing a tripartite conceptual framework that recognises multiple and inter-related forms of violence, overlaid audiovisual economies, and the contemporary scopic regime. The essay then deploys this framework in a comparison of the sensorial engagements of two recent films: Desierto (Jonas Cuarón, 2015) and Ayotzinapa, el paso de la tortuga (Enrique García Meza, 2017).
本文探讨了影响研究对21世纪墨西哥暴力和视听媒体分析的贡献，特别关注暴力和基于时间的媒体的时间性质。报纸头版上那张在美墨边境上死去的孩子和她父亲的照片，是否让观众看到了新自由主义经济和当代移民政策的缓慢暴力?或者它只是鼓励了肤浅的怜悯之声?考虑到今天饱和和节奏令人眩晕的媒体环境，故事片在鼓励观众发自内心地认识到国家镇压的持续时间和重要性方面有什么作用吗?为了充分分析视听媒体的复杂感官动态，本文首先提出了一个三方概念框架，该框架承认多种相互关联的暴力形式、叠加的视听经济和当代视野制度。然后，本文将这一框架用于比较最近两部电影的感官参与:《欲望》(Jonas Cuarón, 2015)和《阿约齐纳帕，el paso de la tortuga》(Enrique García Meza, 2017)。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2022.2128728
Nadia Lie
Detachment has become a key notion for the study of contemporary Latin American cinema. This article examines how detachment is related to tourism and how it refigures the political in Las cosas como son (2012), a film by Fernando Lavanderos, who is considered representative of a new generation of Chilean directors. By drawing on recent insights from tourism studies, the close reading highlights tourism’s disruptive potential with respect to disaffection in a host–guest relationship. It then relates this “disrupted disaffection” to the film’s ending, arguing that detachment can be conceived of as “unsentimentality” – a notion bridging the apparent gap between an aesthetics of detachment and the political sphere.
超然已成为当代拉丁美洲电影研究的一个关键概念。本文探讨了超然是如何与旅游业联系在一起的，以及它是如何在Fernando Lavanderos的电影《Las cosas como son》(2012)中重新塑造政治的。Fernando Lavanderos被认为是智利新一代导演的代表。通过借鉴旅游业研究的最新见解，这篇细读文章强调了旅游业对主客关系中不满情绪的破坏性潜力。然后，它将这种“被扰乱的不满”与电影的结局联系起来，认为超然可以被理解为“不多愁善感”——一个弥合超然美学与政治领域之间明显差距的概念。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2022.2122787
J. Sequeira
In this interview, Maristella Svampa discusses the themes of her most well-known book, Debates latinoamericanos, originally published in 2016 and now a modern classic in Latin America. She also talks about some of the directions her more recent work has taken. A central theme that emerges is the importance of finding meaningful forms of living in community with other people and with nature, in an age centred on individual success and corporate activities. She is concerned with writing the intellectual history of a specifically Latin American tradition while also connecting it to broader global concerns, such as climate change. Svampa is interested in blurring the lines between academic and artistic work, with poetry, music, and the visual arts valued as forms of knowledge that incorporate both sensual and intellectual elements, capable of reflecting new challenges while creating spaces for change.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.1971638
V. Garibotto
This article studies the Argentine psychoanalytic discourses surrounding the passing of the laws of marriage equality and gender identity between 2005 and 2012. During those years, psychoanalysts shared their expertise on LGBTQIA + issues in journals, newspapers, television and radio programmes, and at the National Congress. Their favourable opinions influenced several legislators and led to them voting in favour of the laws. In this article, I argue that these psychoanalytic discourses enabled paradoxical ideologies. While psychoanalytic concepts provided arguments in favour of passing the laws, they also paradoxically reinforced heteronormative, racist, classist, and urbanised views on gender and sexuality. Drawing from an intersectional perspective and from post-structuralist, feminist, and queer critiques to psychoanalysis, the article examines how these paradoxical ideologies emerge in newspaper articles and in journals and books published by psychoanalytic associations and aiming at a general audience.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2017270
Charlie D. Hankin
Several scholars have outlined the Afro-diasporic connections and semiotic features common to global iterations of hip-hop. This article proposes that what connects rappers in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti is a specific redefinition of rap as intermedial writing. Guided by ethnographic insights, I trace the recurrent figure of writing through a corpus of songs released by Brazilian, Cuban, and Haitian rappers between roughly 2000 and 2015. Bringing together multiple sites of inscription and pathways into repente improvisation, pixação writing, samba lyricism, jazz-writing, written poetry, and activism, these rappers provide new theoretical tools for understanding intermediality as well as contemporary Afro-diasporic literature, rereading hip-hop from the Global South through the particularities of their own languages and histories. I argue that their reception of hip-hop is not only the product of shared oral/aural traditions but also a response to the specific politics of literacy that have shaped Latin America.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2022.2037533
M. Carosi
This article explores how Lady Masacre (Mario Mendoza, Colombia, 2013) constructs the narrative of a transsexual woman, Gabriela López, as a way to reinforce views on non-heteronormative life that perpetuate the dominant values expected from marginalised communities. In reading this novel, I argue that Mendoza reduces Gabriela to a pendular existence between being an autonomous woman and the femme fatal role that eventually defines her. In so doing, Lady Masacre humanises the men who take part in the reconstruction of her story while showing why Gabriela feels the need to pass as a cis woman. In this way, while the novel offers a glimpse into the contradictions of trans lives, desires, and challenges in contemporary Colombia, it also traps Gabriela within practices imposed by respectability politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-09DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2020734
A. Thomas
History has long been regarded a vital tool for emergent nation-states and subsequent nationalist regimes in unifying disparate groups around a common historical memory. And nowhere can such a memory be more effectively instilled in a population than in its schools, where the textbook gives state-approved narratives an unimpeachable authority in children’s minds. This essay traces the canonisation of a colonial, Classicised narrative portraying pre-Columbian Anahuac as the Mexican national past through its monumentalisation in state-approved textbooks until well into the twentieth century. By focusing on mythical Greco-Roman representations of the Acolhua monarch Nezahualcoyotl that emerged shortly after the Spanish Conquest and were consolidated in the early years of Independence, I contend that the projection of Mexican identity in schoolbooks rests upon a fictionalised, unifying conception of history steeped in European Classicism but used as a strategy of identification against the European. In doing so, this essay opens up a reading of history textbooks as Mexican sites of memory: sites which reflect the lost Indigenous cultures of Mexico yet simultaneously offer an ingrained European reading of those very cultures.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2007865
Jorge Quintana-Navarrete
This article explores the interplay of race, the underground, and geological science in nineteenth-century Mexico. The analysis focuses on visual and scientific accounts of the Cacahuamilpa Caves, a network of natural caves that became one of Mexico’s best-known natural wonders during the nineteenth century. Drawing insight from political geology, I argue that these accounts operationalise certain basic geological premises in order to naturalise racial hierarchies in a recently independent nation. In the first part I contend that Baron Gros’s visual depiction of the caves stages a stratigraphic relationship between an Indigenous substratum (possessing inert, extractable properties) and a White stratum (defined by the active, scientific extraction of underlying resources). The second part shows how the scientific accounts by Bárcena, García Cubas, and others mobilise geological knowledge with the aim of fashioning a teleological narrative in which Indigenous peoples are established as the link between past geological eras and the modern nation. Finally, the last part focuses on how these geological accounts actively exclude Indigenous understandings of the earth based on their alleged incapacity to acknowledge the geological distinction between life and nonlife.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2006616
Claudia A. Arteaga
This dispatch examines the dynamics at play in Peru’s recent presidential elections.
这篇报道考察了秘鲁最近总统选举的动态。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2021.2003761
Diamela Eltit, R. Segato, J. Guerrero
The following conversation took place on 20 September 2020, during a virtual encounter jointly organised by Princeton University’s Latin American Studies Programme, and the journal Cuadernos de Literatura, from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota. “Thinking in the Present” offered a critical opportunity to confront the interpretative volatility and paralysis of criticism of the current moment, the failure of liberal democracy, the deepening of inequality based on intersectionality, and the geopolitics of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has disorganised and exposed the intrinsic failure of the algorithms set in the past few decades to predict our movements, to anticipate, and therefore to control, life on the planet, our behavioural patterns and wishes: from how we shop to how we vote. The interpretative failure vis-à-vis the virus’s global behaviour – its universalisation in other words, that attempts an interpretation that could apply from New Zealand to Colombia, from Honduras to Singapore – summons forth two thinkers who have worked around the notion of uncertainty, thinkers who could be defined with a key word: suspicion. The photograph featured on the event poster (Figure 1) is by Lotty Rosenfeld, who had recently passed away in Santiago de Chile. The encounter also took place in memoriam of this unforgettable artist, who taught us how to cross the sign. Her crosses bear witness to an indelible act: Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020).
以下对话发生在2020年9月20日，由普林斯顿大学拉丁美洲研究计划和波哥大Javeriana大学的《Cuadernos de Literatura》杂志联合组织的一次虚拟会议上。“在当下思考”提供了一个关键的机会，以应对对当前时刻的批评的解释性波动和瘫痪、自由民主的失败、基于交叉性的不平等的加深以及新冠肺炎大流行的地缘政治。该病毒扰乱了组织，暴露了过去几十年中设置的算法在预测我们的行动、预测并控制地球上的生活、我们的行为模式和愿望方面的内在失败：从我们如何购物到我们如何投票。对病毒全球行为的解释失败——换言之，它的普遍性，试图从新西兰到哥伦比亚，从洪都拉斯到新加坡——唤起了两位围绕不确定性概念工作的思想家，他们可以用一个关键词来定义：怀疑。活动海报上的照片（图1）由洛蒂·罗森菲尔德拍摄，他最近在智利圣地亚哥去世。这次相遇也是为了纪念这位难忘的艺术家，她教我们如何穿过标志。她的十字架见证了一个不可磨灭的行为：洛蒂·罗森菲尔德（1943–2020）。
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