The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature

Baisotti, Pablo

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“…However, the vast majority of the literature on the topic continues to focus on representational practices that narrate, process, or account for the violence, as well as on the violence that is intrinsic to literary or filmic representation itself, either by essentialising, aesthetising, or normalising violent acts. Most revealing in this respect is the lack of in-depth engagement with affect theory in the recent Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature (Baisotti 2022). In the past decade, the paradigm of affect theory has opened up new venues for research on the cultural dimension of violence in Latin America.…”

Section: Latin America and Violencementioning

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Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America

Mandolessi¹,

Dhondt²,

Zícari³

2022

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

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This introductory article sets out to review the applicability and productivity of affect as a high-impact concept in the humanities. With a particular focus on a cultural studies perspective, it evaluates the different strands in affect theory and surveys the most recent approaches in the field. The authors argue for adopting a relational approach, focusing on specific formations or "affective arrangements", which considers affect as a site of convergence of different actors, discourses, media, etc. instead of an isolated process. The second section of the article provides a short overview of the study of violence in Latin Americanist scholarship and underscores the relevance of affective arrangements when studying the multiplicity of violences in cultural expressions from the region.

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Section: Latin America and Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America

Mandolessi¹,

Dhondt²,

Zícari³

2022

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

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From Civilization to Barbarism in El ciudadano ilustre : The Return of a Latin American Paradigm?

VAN HAESENDONCK

2024

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

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The aim of this article is to have an in-depth look at how the nineteenth-century paradigm of civilización y barbarie , predominant in Latin America, is represented in the film El ciudadano ilustre/ The Distinguished Citizen (2016), an Argentine film directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. A fictional account of an Argentine writer’s life after winning the Nobel Prize, it has a highly ambiguous ending. I argue that the film establishes a dialogic link with classics of Latin American literature such as Esteban Echeverría’s ‘El Matadero’ (1871) and Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘El Sur’ (1953), and Facundo by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, laying bare the unresolved tension between civilización and barbarie in contemporary Argentina and broader Latin American society. A close analysis of El ciudadano ilustre shows that, at least in Latin America, oppositional concepts have all but died, thus challenging the postmodern trend of dissolving them along with other supposedly outdated binarisms (such as urban v. rural, centre v. periphery.). Simultaneously, the film uses metafiction as a postmodern strategy to deal critically with the dichotomy.

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The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature

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Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America

Introduction: Affective Arrangements and Violence in Latin America

From Civilization to Barbarism in El ciudadano ilustre : The Return of a Latin American Paradigm?

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