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Capitalism and its discontents : power and accumulation in Latin-American culture

Kraniauskas, John, author.

Capitalism and its discontents : power and accumulation in Latin-American culture

Kraniauskas, John, author.

xxiv, 289 pages ; 22 cm.

Iberian and Latin American studies

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Originally published in Spanish as Polticas literarias : poder y acumulacÞin en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos. Mexico : FLACSO, 2012.

Collection of essays written during the last twenty years.

Part I: Walter Benjamin and/in Latin America -- Beware Mexican Ruins! One-Way Street and the Colonial Unconscious -- Laughing at 'Americanism': Benjamin, Mari©Łtegui, Chaplin -- A Small Andean History of Photography: Yawar fiesta -- Part II: The 'Maldoblestar' of Literature -- The Politics of El Se©łor Presidente: Notes on Textual 'Maldoblestar' -- From Ideology to Culture: Subalternization and Montage (Yo el Supremo's History) -- Return, Melencholy and the Crisis of the Future: El fiscal by Augusto Roa Bastos -- The State is a Monkey: El apando by Jos©♭ Revueltas -- Porno-Revolution: El fiord and the Eva-Peronist State -- Critical Closeness: The Chronicle-Essays of Carlos Monsiv©Łis -- Noir into History: James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover -- Part III: Film and Accumulation -- Cronos and the Political Economy of Vampirism: Notes on a Historical Constellation -- Amores perros and the Monetarization of Art -- Elasticity of Demand: Reflections on The Wire -- Conclusion -- To Govern is to Re-populate: On Neolibral 'Primitive' Accumulation (A Reading of Rodolfo Walsh's 'Carta abierta de un escritor a la Junta Militar').

In this book, John Kraniauskas uses close examinations of a number of modern and contemporary Latin American and North American novels and films to highlight the relationship between such texts and their regional cultural, political, and social contexts. Studies of a novel by James Ellroy and the TV series The Wire enable Kraniauskas to consider how ideas developed in one context can be used to explain experiences in another; he also explores an ongoing shift from texts that are centered on the state and its actions to those in which other groups come to the fore. Throughout, there's a useful emphasis on the cultural experience of money, and how it can be traced through a wide variety of texts and cultural productions.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Güç (Sosyal bilimler), Edebiyatta.

Latin American literature -- History and criticism.

Latin Amerika edebiyatı -- Tarih ve eleştiri.

Motion pictures -- Latin America.

Sinema -- Latin Amerika.

Capitalism -- Latin America.

Kapitalizm -- Latin Amerika.

Economic history -- 1990-.

Ekonomi tarihi -- 1990-.

Library	Materyal Türü	Demirbaş	Yer Numarası	Durumu / Lokasyon / İade Tarihi
Ekonomi Kütüphanesi	Kitap	EKOBKN0002085	860.927 KRA 2017	Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon