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  • Vol. 29: Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture
  • Vol. 28: Contemporary Brazilian Cities, Culture, and Resistance
  • Vol. 27: Huellas de lo trágico en la cultura española moderna
  • Vol. 26: Migraciones, derechos humanos y acciones locales
  • Vol. 25: Confined Women: The Walls of Female Space in Early Modern Spain
  • Vol.24: Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World
  • Vol.23: Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World
  • Vol.22: Vestigios del pasado: Los sitios de la memoria y sus representaciones políticas y artísticas
  • Vol.21: Ensayo / Error. Arte y escritura experimentales en España (1960-1980)
  • Vol.20: Freakish Encounters
  • Vol.19: Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España
  • Vol.18: Gender and the Politics of Literature
  • Vol.17: Conflicto armado y políticas de la memoria en el Perú
  • Vol.16: Amazonian Literatures
  • Vol.15: Writing Monsters
  • Vol.14: Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights
  • Vol.13: Whose Voice is This? Iberian and Latin American Antigones
  • Vol.12: Troubled Waters
  • Vol.11: Memory and Its Discontents
  • Vol.10: Armed Resistance
  • Vol.9: Hybrid Storyspaces
  • Vol.8: Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education
  • Vol.7: Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Vol.6: Huidobro's Futurity
  • Vol.5: Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  • Vol.4: Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies
  • Vol.3: Latin American Urban Cultural Production
  • Vol.2: Estudios Hispánicos
  • Vol.1: Debating Hispanic Studies

Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies

Ed. Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez

Introduction
Ana Forcinito and Fernando Ordóñez

Part 1: Theoretical and Philosophical Issues

1. An Aesthetic Approach to Issues of Human Rights
Hernán Vidal

2. Densely Woven Skeins: When Literature is a Practice of Human Rights
Amy Kaminsky

3. Skeletons in the Closet? Approaching Human Rights from Culture
Gustavo Remedi

Part 2: Juridical Perspectives

4. The Citizens' Testament and the Necessary Risks of Truth: Accounts Pending in Contemporary Uruguay
Gerardo Caetano

5. The Right to Truth in the Recent History of Argentina
Jorge Montes

6. The Human Rights Factor in United States Immigration Policies
Hector A. Reyes

Part 3: Cultural Manifestations of Human Rights Issues

7. The Subaltern War Machine: Women, War and Rights
Jean Franco

8. Absent Causes, or el secreto a voces
Doris Sommer

9. Torture and Nation: A Diachronic Map of Argentine Violence
Alejandro Solomianski

10. The Knowledge that Comes from Seeing: Yuyanapaq and the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Margarita Saona

11. Fed by Any Means Necessary: Omnivorous Negritude and the Transnational Semiotics of Afro-Colombian Blackness in the Work of Liliana Angulo
Corey Shouse Tourino

12. Human Rights and Academic Discourse: Teaching Las Casas-Sepúlveda's Debate at the Time of the Iraq War
Raúl Marrero-Fente

Afterword
David William Foster

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