México Noir

Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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These essays by critics, theorists and artists explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of ‘negrura-oscuridad’ in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile staging of atrocities, the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic and the consolidation of forensically inspired art-making. In the wake of Walter Benjamin’s ‘unfinished’ thinking structures, this volume operates through contiguous directions, transitions and regressions, incorporating images as part of the discussion of a ruinous visuality. Its polycentric mesh covers a wide range of art, writing, photography and film: from ritual uses of the ‘darksome’ and its legacies in pre-Hispanic cultures to colonial religious iconography of penitential blindness; from narco-noir in the novels of Roberto Bolaño and Yuri Herrera to techno-noir in dystopian border films; from the quotidian taxonomy of horror expurgated in art practice to the haunted ‘other darkness’ of the photographic blink. It also explores how we can contest the threat of dark ecology and ‘horrorism’ through sense expansion within new media and by positing fruitful blind spots in text and art.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-12-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 0 mm
Vikt:642 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:374
Förlag:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN:9783034322430

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Erica Segre is Senior Lecturer in Latin American and Hispanic Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. She specializes in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, art and thought and twentieth-century and contemporary visual culture. She is the author of Intersected Identities: Strategies of Visualization in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mexican Culture (2007) and the editor of Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture (2013).

Innehållsförteckning

ERICA SEGRE (ed.)Introduction: La negrura- oscuridad y su imagen: Rethinking the Poetics of Darkness and Dark Materials in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture in Mexico DEBBIE NAGAO Proscenium of the Dark: Darkness and Liminality in Pre-Columbian MesoamericaANDREW CHENBlindness, Darkness and the Penitential Religious Experience: Practices and Imagery from the Flagellant Confraternal Contexts in Italy, Spain and New MexicoGERARDO SUTERBlink: A Path to the Other DarknessCRISTINA RIVERA GARZALos materiales ajenos: Re-escritura, comunalidad y desapropiación/ Estranged Materials: Re-writing, Communality and Dis-appropriation (Cambridge 2015)Escrituras comunalistas/On Communalistic Writing　ELSA M. TREVIÑO¡Basta de luz!: Configurations of Revelatory Darkness in Twenty-First Century FictionSTEVEN BOLDYTrabajos del poeta del reino: Dark Power and Art in Yuri Herrera and Octavio PazMARCOS RICO DOMÍNGUEZOscuro artefacto de la memoria: Huecos, pliegues y cortes en Amuleto (1999) de Roberto Bolaño/Obscure Artefact of Memory: Gaps, Folds and Cuts in Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet (1999)JOHN KRANIAUSKASA Monument to the Unknown Worker: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (2004) as Noir and as InstallationJOSÉ LUIS BARRIOSDe estupidez y oscuridad: La sujeción y subversión en el cine y la literatura en México/ Of Stupidity and Darkness: Subjection and Subversion in Mexican Film and LiteratureGEOFFREY KANTARISTechno-Noir in the Borderlands: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008)ROBIN GREELEYNarco-Noir: A Quotidian Aesthetic Taxonomy of Expressive Violence (with reference to Moris [Israel Meza Moreno])　MARA POLGOVSKYAfter Darkness: Sense-Expansion and the Aesthetics of New Media