Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamerica

How have sociopolitical fears been enacted, represented and performed in societies marked by repression, conflict and abuse of power? And how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural productions?

Format: Hardback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 19 July 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

How have sociopolitical fears been enacted, represented and performed in societies marked by repression, conflict and abuse of power? And how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural productions?

Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica offers a critical contribution to studies of the representation of socio-politically inflicted fears in contemporary literature and film. This volume looks at the immediate and long-lasting consequences of violence and terror in Latin American societies from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Chapters of the book address two central questions: how have various sociopolitical fears been assumed, assimilated and represented in societies characterized by conflict, repression and abuse of power? and how has this emotion shaped aesthetic and ideological discourses and cultural productions?

Through the study of works by contemporary writers and producers, including Monica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Alonso Cueto and Manlio Argueta, the book examines the atmosphere of terror and anxiety caused by civil wars in Guatemala, El Salvador and Peru; the drug war in Mexico; the American invasion of Panama in 1989; as well as the dynamics of class inequality and gender discrimination in Ecuador and Mexico.

By exploring these and other cases, Violencia, poder y afectos: narrativas del miedo en Latinoamérica sheds light on the ways in which fear and anxiety are produced, reproduced and circulated within societies marked by violence, power and inequality.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781855663664