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Other Americans : the art of Latin America in the US imaginary
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Other Americans : the art of Latin America in the US imaginary / Matthew Bush.
ISBN
9780822947240
0822947242
9780822988960
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Physical Description
ix, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Grounded in perspectives of affect theory, Other Americans examines the writings of Roberto Bolaño and Daniel Alarcón; films by Alfonso Cuarón, Claudia Llosa, Matt Piedmont, and Joel and Ethan Coen; as well as the Netflix serials Narcos and El marginal. These widely consumed works about Latin America-equally balanced between narratives produced in the United States and in the region itself-are laden with fear, anxiety, and shame, which has an impact that exceeds the experience of reception. The negative feelings encoded in visions of Latin America become common coinage for US audiences, shaping their ideological relationship with the region and performing an affective interpellation. By analyzing the underlying melodramatic structures of these works that would portray Latin America as an implicit other, Bush examines a process of affective comprehension that foments an us/them, or north/south binary in the reception of Latin America's globalized art"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2023
Series
Illuminations: cultural formations of the Americas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Speculative affects
Staging shame just across the border: reading Bolaño in the United States
From disgust to pity: viewing domestic labor in the films of Claudia Llosa and Alfonso Cuarón
[indistinct chatter in Spanish]: the fear of Latin America on Netflix
A hit and a miss: Hollywood's distressed take on the border
Daniel Alarcón and the anxious poetics of cultural translation
Coda: Latin America's hemispheric affects.
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