Latin American Literature and the Mass Media

Ed. Debra Ann Castillo and José Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Examines Latin American literature in the context of a contemporary audiovisual culture in which mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet have threatened writing's "representational privilege" as a technology of information processing and storage.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond the Lettered City

Edmundo Paz-Soldán and Debra A. Castillo

Part I. Revisions

  1. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Toward a Public Sphere or a Mass Media?

    Fernando Unzueta

  2. Pancho Villa at the Movies: Cinematic Techniques in the Works of Guzmán and Muñoz

    J. Patrick Duffey

  3. The Avant-Garde and Cinematic Imaginary: Huidobro’s novella-film

    Edmundo Paz-Soldán

  4. The Modern Novel, the Media, and Mass Culture in Latin America

    Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat

    Part II. Mass Culture

  5. MEDIAted Memory: Writing, Photography, and Performativity in the Age of the Image

    Luis Ernesto Cárcamo Huechante

  6. Cortázar Under Exposure: Photography and Fiction in the City

    Marcy E. Schwartz

  7. Hybridity and Postmodernity in the Argentine Meta-Comic: The Bridge Texts of Julio Cortázar and Ricardo Piglia

    Ellen McCracken

  8. Comic Art at the Margins of Hierarchy: The Mexican Multicultural Expression of La Familia Burrón and Los Supermachos

    Ana Merino

  9. The Mexican Telenovela and its Foundational Fictions

    Adriana Estill

    Part III. Narrative Strategies in Our Fin de Siglo

  10. Contesting the Lettered City: Cultural Mediation and Communicative Strategies in the Contemporary Chronicle in Mexico

    Ignacio Corona

  11. Deserted Cities: Pop and Disenchantment in Turn-of-the-Century Latin American Narrative

    Ana María Amar Sánchez

  12. In Search of Lost Time: Intellectuals, Media, and Narrative

    Alfonsina Lorenzi

  13. http://www.LAlit.com

    Debra A. Castillo

    Part IV. The Digital World

  14. The Lack of Materiality in Latin American Media Theory

    Shirin Shenassa

  15. Condiciones extremas: Digital Science Fiction from Colombia

    Susana Pajares Tosca

  16. Writing Communities on the Internet: Textual Authority and Territorialization

Afterword

David William Foster