Francine R. Masiello

The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the evolution of "sense work" in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781477315040
• ISBN-10: 1477315047
• Artikelnr.: 49664822

Autorenporträt

By Francine R. Masiello

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sensing the Early Republic
Chapter 2. Troubled by Gender: Technology and Perception in the Women’s Nineteenth Century
Chapter 3. Collective Synesthesia: The 1920s Avant-Garde
Chapter 4. A Politics of Perception against the State
Chapter 5. By Way of a Conclusion: A Sense of the “Now”
Notes
Works Cited
Index