City/Art

The Urban Scene in Latin America
Herausgeber: Biron, Rebecca

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays argues that urban arts not only shape the imagined space of Latin American cities, but also structure real, lived urban space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 165mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344551
• ISBN-10: 0822344556
• Artikelnr.: 25878688

Autorenporträt

Rebecca E. Biron is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: City/Art: Setting the Scene / Rebecca E. Biron 1
Part 1. Urban Designs
What is a City? / Néstor García Canclini 37
Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too / Adrián Gorelik 61
The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk / James Holston 85
Part 2. Street Signs
City, Art, Politics / Nelly Richard 115
The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of the
Aesthetics / Marcy Schwartz 127
Miami Remake / José Quiroga 145
The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction / Amy Kaminsky 165
Part 3. Traffic
On Maps and Malls / Hugo Achugar 185
Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro / George Yúdice 211
Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness / Nelson Brissac
Peixoto 233
Bibliography 251
Contributors 267
Index 271