The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Guillermina De Ferrari and Mariano Siskind Part I Not the Way You Remember: Reshuffled Traditions and Historical Formations Avant-Gardes in Latin America: A Polemical Intervention on Historical and Neo-Vanguardias Fernando J. Rosenberg A Material World: On the Literary Invention of the Latin American Queer Body Javier Guerrero Economic Impact: Narrative Traces of Money, Crisis, and Work Alejandra Laera Neoliberalism in Latin America: Sequences, Struggles, Institutions Verónica Gago Gore Capitalism, Borderization, and Fascism 2.0 Sayak Valencia Formations of Sense Horacio Legrás What Is Popular Art? Karen Benezra Work’s Figures, Work’s Forms Sarah Ann Wells Literature and Revolution in Latin America Juan E. De Castro The Reactionary Genealogies of Latin American Literature Benjamin Loy The Political Art of Memory in Latin America Victor Vich and Alexandra Hibbett Decolonizing Indigenous Literatures Arturo Arias Bound to Beauty: The Cultural Politics of Feminist Writerly Formations Victoria Liendo Gisèle Freund’s Latin America: The Cosmopolitan Promises of Modern Photography Alejandra Uslenghi Part II Virtually Anywhere: Dislocated Boundaries and Porous Cartographies Peopling Latin Americanism Fernando Degiovanni Literary Exchanges between Latin America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War Jesús Cano Reyes The Orient, the Rim, and the World Rosario Hubert Rethinking South-South Globalities: The Indian Connection Alexandra Ortiz Wallner Liberian Signifiers and the Crisis of Latin American Cosmopolitan Imaginaries Mariano Siskind The End of Landscape: Brumadinho, the Capitalocene, and the Collapse of Form Jens Andermann Urban and Environmental Scales of Belonging in the Digital Age Bruno Carvalho Natural Borders and Animal Life: Inhabiting Guantánamo Esther Whitfield Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture Charlotte Rogers Part III A Bigger Toolbox: Thinking Patterns and Contemporary Interrogations Being River: Ambient Poetics and Somatic Experiences of More-than-Human Flows Lisa Blackmore Ecocriticism Gisela Heffes Energy Aesthetics: Sandú Darié’s Film Petróleo cubano Rachel Price The Afterlives of Biopolitics Gabriel Giorgi Infrastructure Studies and Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean Nicole Fadellin Afrofuturismo: Aesthetics and Interpretation Persephone Braham Birthing Ourselves: Black Womanhood and Epistemological Marronage in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures Odette Casamayor-Cisneros A Horizontal Hospitality Guillermina De Ferrari Queer and Trans Critique in the Caribbean and Latin America Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes The Affective Turn According to Latin America, and Vice-Versa Cecilia Macón Sound Studies and Literature in Latin America Anke Birkenmeier Imagining and Undoing Masculinity in Jorge Luis Borges’s Poetry and Prose Fiction Idelber Avelar The Global South, Resistance, and the Anthropocene: A Long Walk in the Great Night Luís Madureira Él no es: Infrapolitics and the Experience of Tragedy Gareth Williams Part IV Beyond the Book: Unbound Objects and Unfettered Critical Practices Distorting Latinamericanism Erin Graff Zivin Sensationalism Sergio Delgado Moya Nature and Labor in Literary Form Héctor Hoyos Cartonera Publishers: Of Cardboard Boxes and Cultural Capital Paloma Celis Carbajal Institutions: Prizes, Presses, and Book Fairs Gesine Müller Material Technologies in Print: Posters and Clippings in Latin American Magazines from the First Half of the Twentieth Century Antonia Viu Tracking Dance in Latin American Literature Michelle Clayton New Forms of Musical Belonging in Contemporary Brazil Falina Enríquez Critical Performances: The Scream, the Green Tide, and the Spider as Embodied Feminist Articulations Marcela A. Fuentes Exteriority, Extension, Expansion: Photography and Theatricality in Chilean Arts Natalia Brizuela Media Archaeology and e-Literature Phillip Penix-Tadsen Experimental Literary Forms in the Digital Age: Sampling Quantum Poetics, Hypermedia Narratives, and Robopoetic Hacking Scott Weintraub Index