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Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature

Author : Liesbeth François
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030694569
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature written by Liesbeth François and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the role of subterranean spaces in literary works about Mexico City. It analyzes how underground spaces such as the subway, the sewage system, tunnels, crypts, and the subsoil itself relate to the whole of the city in a body of works published after 1985, the year of the deadliest earthquake in the capital’s history. The texts belong to the most important genres in urban literature (the novel, the short story, and the crónica) and demonstrate the crucial role played by the underground in contemporary imaginings of the megalopolis, as it condenses and confronts the tensions that run through them. This central idea is developed through four analytical chapters focusing on the political, ecological, historical, and aesthetic dimension of subterranean imaginaries.

The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

Author : Lieven Ameel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000605620
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies written by Lieven Ameel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new debates in the field. The three focal issues are key concepts and genres of literary urban studies; a reassessment and critique of classical urban studies theories and the canon of literary capitals; and methods for the analysis of cities in literature. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to the city in literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on city literature. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Author : José Eduardo González
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319924389
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature written by José Eduardo González and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.

Global Undergrounds

Author : Carlos López Galviz
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780236115
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Global Undergrounds written by Carlos López Galviz and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rest your eyes long enough on the skylines of Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta—even Chicago or London—and you will see the same remarkable transformation, building after building going up with the breakneck speed of twenty-first-century urbanization. But there is something else just as transformative that you won’t see: sprawling networks of tunnels rooting these cities into the earth. Global Undergrounds offers a richly illustrated exploration of these subterranean spaces, charting their global reach and the profound—but often unseen—effects they have on human life. The authors shine their headlamps into an astonishing diversity of manmade underground environments, including subway systems, sewers, communications pipelines, storage facilities, and even shelters. There they find not only an extraordinary range of architectural approaches to underground construction but also a host of different cultural meanings. Underground places can evoke fear or hope; they can serve as sites of memory, places of work, or the hidden headquarters of resistance movements. They are places that can tell a city’s oldest stories or foresee its most distant futures. They are places—ultimately—of both incredible depth and breadth, crucial to all of us topside who work as urban planners, geographers, architects, engineers, or any of us who take subway trains or enjoy fresh water from a faucet. Indeed, as the authors demonstrate, the constant flux within urban undergrounds—the nonstop circulation of people, substances, and energy—serves all city dwellers in myriad ways, not just with the logistics of day-to-day life but as a crucial part of a city’s mythology.

Literary Transnationalism(s)

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004370862
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Literary Transnationalism(s) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goethe in 1827 famously claimed that national literatures did not mean very much anymore, and that the epoch of world literature was at hand. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, in the so-called "transnational turn" in literary studies, interest in world literature, and in how texts move beyond national or linguistic boundaries, has peaked. The authors of the 18 articles making up Literary Transnationalism(s) reflect on how literary texts move between cultures via translation, adaptation, and intertextual referencing, thus entering the field of world literature. The texts and subjects treated range from Caribbean, American, and Latin American literature to European migrant literatures, from the uses of pseudo-translations to the organizing principles of world histories of literature, from the dissemination of knowledge in the middle ages to circulation of literary journals and series in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors include, amongst others, Jean Bessière, Johan Callens, Reindert Dhondt, César Domínguez, Erica Durante, Ottmar Ette, Kathleen Gyssels, Reine Meylaerts, and Djelal Kadir. Authors discussed comprise, amongst others, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway, Edouard Glissant.

Horizontal Vertigo

Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748897
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Horizontal Vertigo written by Juan Villoro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498530966
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America written by Mark Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide "human" historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments. Taking an ecocritical approach to Latin American cultural production including literature, film, performance, and digital artwork, the chapters in this volume develop a notion of ecological crisis that captures not only its documentary sense in the representation of environmental destruction (the degradation of the oikos), but also the crisis in the modern worldview (logos) that the acknowledgment of crisis provokes. In this sense, crisis is also the promise of a turning point, of the possibilities for change. Latin American representations of ecological crisis thus create the conditions for projects that decolonize environments, developing new, sustainable ways of conceiving of and relating to our world or returning to old ones.

The Spaces of the Modern City

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691133430
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Spaces of the Modern City written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema.

Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture

Author : Justin D. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317425774
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture written by Justin D. Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region.

DK Eyewitness Books: City

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756673771
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books: City written by Philip Steele and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness City examines urban life in many of the world's most fascinating, fast-paced cities. It takes readers from the suburbs and shanty towns to the high-rise business districts, showing how cities grow and function. Also included is historical information, looking at the evolution of cities through the centuries.

Underground Utilization: Space construction underground

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Underground Utilization: Space construction underground written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Is Mexico City

Author : Abby Clawson Low
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 1524762113
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book This Is Mexico City written by Abby Clawson Low and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stylish, gorgeously photographed guide to Mexico City will help you get the most out of this vibrant, culturally rich destination—or make you want to plan a trip! Vast and exciting, Mexico City has so much to offer, from museums to markets, architectural wonders to Aztec monuments. This thorough and practical travel guide includes everything you need to know to enjoy the lifestyle of Mexico City—its sights, sounds, and tastes. This Is Mexico City showcases the best museums (both traditional and off-the-beaten-path), old-school mercados, public art, food trucks, and much more. Organized by neighborhood, each section offers insider recommendations for every interest: For shoppers there are boutiques, galleries, and local artisan studios; for foodies, trendy bars, tiny taco restaurants, ice cream parlors abound. An incredible experience awaits! This Is Mexico City includes: Archaeological Sites • Architecture • Artists • Designers • For Kids • Galleries • Libraries • Monuments • Museums • Parks • Plazas • Public Art • Shopping • To Eat, Drink • To Stay

The Art of Flight

Author : Sergio Pitol
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920063
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Flight written by Sergio Pitol and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debut work in English, a literary memoir, by Sergio Pitol, maestro of Mexican literature, winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize.

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137549114
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.

Latin American Documentary Narratives

Author : Liliana Chávez Díaz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501366033
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Documentary Narratives written by Liliana Chávez Díaz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What defines the boundary between fact and fabrication, fiction and nonfiction, literature and journalism? Latin American Documentary Narratives unpacks the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject, where the literary journalist, rather than the subject being interviewed, can become the hero of a narrative in its recording and retelling. Latin American Documentary Narratives covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics such as social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes and includes an appendix of interviews with authors who have not previously been critically read together, from the early and emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to more recent authors, like Leila Guerriero and Juan Villoro, who are currently reshaping media and audiences in Latin America. In a world overwhelmed by data production and marked by violent acts against those considered 'others', Liliana Chávez Díaz argues that storytelling plays an essential role in communication among individuals, classes and cultures.

Subterranea

Author : Chris Fitch
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1643261096
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Subterranea written by Chris Fitch and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with fun facts and unbelievable photography, this below-the-surface exploration of the world’s most spectacular underground spaces will delight curious nature lovers, travelers, and readers.

Art Studio America

Author : Hossein Amirsadeghi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050097053X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Art Studio America written by Hossein Amirsadeghi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-format and illustrated with original photography: a fresh look at the current scene for art lovers and a unique introduction to the art world for the novice For centuries, America's permutations of climate and landscape and its tantalizing suggestion of unlimited possibilities have inspired some of history's greatest minds to embark on both literal and imaginary journeys of exploration, none more so than its visual artists. Contrasting intimate visits to artists' studios with explorations of the country's sweeping landscapes of light and form that have inspired artists since the Luminists and the Hudson River School, here is a privileged look at the dreams, ideas, and thoughts of more than one hundred American artists who are active today. From established figures such as Marina Abramovic, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Francesco Clemente Chuck Close, John Currin, Rachel Feinstein, Richard Prince, Robert Irwin, Kiki Smith, Bill Viola, and Lawrence Weiner to members of the new guard, including Diana Al-Hadid, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, and Sterling Ruby, this profusely and beautifully illustrated journey through artists' studios provides an unprecedented look into the workings of one of the world's largest artistic communities. From New York's skyline to Southern California's sunny boardwalks, Art Studio America will embolden readers the chance to embark on transformative journeys of their own. The book includes essays by Robert Storr, Mark Godfrey, and Ben Genocchio.