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Abstract
Capitalism and its Discontents presents a series of interpretative essays on a number of key modern and contemporary Latin American novels and films. The overarching theme in the essays is the relation between such textual materials and their regional contexts.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Series Editors’ Foreword | ix | ||
| Acknowledgements | xi | ||
| Prologue | xiii | ||
| Introduction | xvii | ||
| Part I: Walter Benjamin and/in Latin America | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: Beware Mexican Ruins! One-Way Street and the Colonial Unconscious | 3 | ||
| Chapter 2: Laughing at ‘Americanism’: Benjamin, Mariátegui, Chaplin | 17 | ||
| Chapter 3: A Small Andean History of Photography: Yawar fiesta | 28 | ||
| Part II: The ‘Maldoblestar’ of Literature | 49 | ||
| Chapter 4: The Politics of El Señor Presidente: Notes on Textual ‘Maldoblestar’ | 51 | ||
| Chapter 5: From Ideology to Culture: Subalternization and Montage (Yo el Supremo’s History) | 65 | ||
| Chapter 6: Return, Melancholy and the Crisis of the Future: El fiscal by Augusto Roa Bastos | 77 | ||
| Chapter 7: The State is a Monkey: El apando by José Revueltas | 87 | ||
| Chapter 8: Porno-Revolution: El fiord and the Eva-Peronist State | 101 | ||
| Chapter 9: Critical Closeness: the Chronicle-Essays of Carlos Monsiváis | 115 | ||
| Chapter 10: Noir into History: James Ellroy’s Blood’s A Rover | 126 | ||
| Part III: Film and Accumulation | 143 | ||
| Chapter 11: Cronos and the Political Economy of Vampirism: Notes on a Historical Constellation | 145 | ||
| Chapter 12: Amores perros and the Monetarization of Art | 162 | ||
| Chapter 13: Elasticity of Demand: Reflections on The Wire | 179 | ||
| Conclusion | 199 | ||
| Chapter 14: To Govern is to Re-populate: On Neoliberal ‘Primitive’ Accumulation (A Reading of Rodolfo Walsh’s ‘Carta abierta de un escritor a la Junta Militar’) | 201 | ||
| Notes | 217 | ||
| Bibliography | 263 | ||
| Index | 281 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |