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- ISBN 9780822948087
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2024
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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_The Other Border Wars: Conflict and Stasis in Latin American Culture_ questions bordering as an organizing principle of culture, conflict, and politics. Shannon Dowd argues that Central and South American border conflicts such as the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932–1935); the Soccer War, between El Salvador and Honduras (1969); and the Falklands/Malvinas War, between Argentina and the United Kingdom (1982); can be considered as stasis, meaning civil strife, rather than polemos, meaning international war. Through analyses of literature, film, and theatre, Dowd shows that border conflict is entwined with domestic strife, reinforced by stagnant geographical lines, and magnified under globalization. Deploying a capacious theory of stasis to question modern sovereignty and bordering, Dowd examines border zones from the outbreak of hostilities to the present, highlighting the lasting legacies of enclosure and violence. The Other Border Wars asks readers to consider how cultural expression challenges the purported fixity of Latin American borders, and even the very idea of bordering.
Shannon Dowd is assistant professor of Spanish at Niagara University in New York. Her research examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American literature, film, and theory.
