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
Chapter 1
The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Toward a Public Sphere or a Mass Media?
Fernando Unzueta
Chapter 2
Pancho Villa at the Movies: Cinematic Techniques in the Works of Guzmán and Muñoz
J. Patrick Duffey
Chapter 3
The Avant-Garde and Cinematic Imaginary: Huidobro’s novella-film
Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Chapter 4
The Modern Novel, the Media, and Mass Culture in Latin America
Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat
Part II. Mass Culture
Chapter 5
MEDIAted Memory: Writing, Photography, and Performativity in the Age of the Image
Luis Ernesto Cárcamo Huechante
Chapter 6
Cortázar Under Exposure: Photography and Fiction in the City
Marcy E. Schwartz
Chapter 7
Hybridity and Postmodernity in the Argentine Meta-Comic: The Bridge Texts of Julio Cortázar and Ricardo Piglia
Ellen McCracken
Chapter 8
Comic Art at the Margins of Hierarchy: The Mexican Multicultural Expression of La Familia Burrón and Los Supermachos
Ana Merino
Chapter 9
The Mexican Telenovela and its Foundational Fictions
Adriana Estill
Part III. Narrative Strategies in Our Fin de Siglo
Chapter 10
Contesting the Lettered City: Cultural Mediation and Communicative Strategies in the Contemporary Chronicle in Mexico
Ignacio Corona
Chapter 11
Deserted Cities: Pop and Disenchantment in Turn-of-the-Century Latin American Narrative
Ana María Amar Sánchez
Chapter 12
In Search of Lost Time: Intellectuals, Media, and Narrative
Alfonsina Lorenzi
Chapter 13
http:// www. LAlit. com
Debra A. Castillo
Part IV. The Digital World
Chapter 14
The Lack of Materiality in Latin American Media Theory
Shirin Shenassa
Chapter 15
Condiciones extremas: Digital Science Fiction from Colombia
Susana Pajares Tosca
Chapter 16
Writing Communities on the Internet: Textual Authority and Territorialization
Carlos Jáuregui
Afterword
David William Foster