Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics and Latin American Arts
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aesthesis
Alain Badiou
Anibal Quijano
antipoetry
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conversational poetry
cosmopolitanism
Decolonial aesthetics
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Frantz Fanon
Hegel
Jacques Ranciere
Jacques-Luc Nancy
Juan G. Ramos
Mario Benedetti
New Latin American Cinema
panaesthetics
postnationalism
Walter Mignolo
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- ISBN 9781683400240
- Weight: 825g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bringing Latin American popular art out of the margins and into the center of serious scholarship, this book rethinks the cultural canon and recovers previously undervalued cultural forms as art. Juan Ramos uses ""decolonial aesthetics,"" a theory that frees the idea of art from Eurocentric forms of expression and philosophies of the beautiful, to examine the long decade of the 1960s in Latin America-- time of cultural production that has not been studied extensively from a decolonial perspective.
Ramos looks at examples of ""antipoetry,"" unconventional verse that challenges canonical poets and often addresses urgent social concerns. He analyzes the militant popular songs of nueva cancion by musicians including Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra. He discusses films that use visually shocking images and melodramatic effects to tell the stories of Latin American nations. These art forms, he argues, appeal to an aesthetic that involves all the senses. Instead of being outdated byproducts of their historical moments, they continue to influence Latin American cultural production today.
Ramos looks at examples of ""antipoetry,"" unconventional verse that challenges canonical poets and often addresses urgent social concerns. He analyzes the militant popular songs of nueva cancion by musicians including Mercedes Sosa and Violeta Parra. He discusses films that use visually shocking images and melodramatic effects to tell the stories of Latin American nations. These art forms, he argues, appeal to an aesthetic that involves all the senses. Instead of being outdated byproducts of their historical moments, they continue to influence Latin American cultural production today.
