Jens (Hrsg.) Andermann

Images of Power

Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America

Buch

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparativ… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Rowe, William (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-57181-533-0
EAN: 9781571815330
Produktnummer: 19824242
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 604 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 604

Über den Autor

William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).