Other Americans : the art of Latin America in the US imaginary /
"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 Lat...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv348f908 |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822988960 0822988968 9780822947240 0822947242 |