|9780822968108|Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina|Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for listening. While Argentina is sometimes regarded as a global leader in human rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and feminist movements, legal and judicial responses to gender-based violence following the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) were slow to materialize. This book explores these delayed advancements while highlighting the role of testimonial…

|9780822949008|Cultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina|Forcinito explores how testimonial voices have played a pivotal role in the fight for justice, memory, and gender rights. Through the concept of diffraction, she examines how these voices move through and reshape barriers to construct sonic spaces that connect bodies and create spaces for listening. While Argentina is sometimes regarded as a global leader in human rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and feminist movements, legal and judicial responses to gender-based violence following the last military dictatorship (1976–1983) were slow to materialize. This book explores these delayed advancements while highlighting the role of testimonial…

|9780822949084|Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America|Novel Distortions analyzes recent (1996-2019) Mexican and Central American novels through aesthetic, economic, and political lenses to interrogate two interrelated crises: the decline of national modernity and the shifting role of the novel as a genre that shapes national identity, instructs citizens in proper conduct, and conveys ideology to the reading public. Considering works penned both domestically and in the diaspora, Mitchell proposes that a contemporary understanding of culture and society must account for the waning of the nation-state alongside burgeoning globalization as the dominant ordering system of world relations. Without romanticizing…

|9780822968115|Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America|Novel Distortions analyzes recent (1996-2019) Mexican and Central American novels through aesthetic, economic, and political lenses to interrogate two interrelated crises: the decline of national modernity and the shifting role of the novel as a genre that shapes national identity, instructs citizens in proper conduct, and conveys ideology to the reading public. Considering works penned both domestically and in the diaspora, Mitchell proposes that a contemporary understanding of culture and society must account for the waning of the nation-state alongside burgeoning globalization as the dominant ordering system of world relations. Without romanticizing…

|9780822967965|Reckoning with Oil in Venezuelan Cultural Production|Despite the precariousness of an oil-based economy and the government’s professed concern about climate change, a failure of imagination regarding alternatives continues to trap Venezuela in an oil-fueled status quo. Elizabeth Barrios examines the ideologies that helped normalize oil production in Venezuela, which further made oil-led development appear to be the only path to prosperity. Anchored in analyses of literature and media from the 1930s to the 2000s, Barrios argues that the creation of post-oil societies is not simply a question of economics or technology; it is a cultural issue that requires engaging the…