Poetics of Race constitutes a critically and theoretically innovative analysis of racial and ethnic dynamics in Latin America, and their symbolic – artistic, ideological – representation. The book illustrates the relevance of cultural and racial minorities in different national contexts (particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Andean region and the Caribbean) through the study of literary, filmic and visual productions that depict otherness, marginalization and popular resistance. The book focuses on negritude, indigenous cultures, andinismo, performance and cinematic discourses in which racial issues are displayed, elaborated and symbolized. The various critical approaches utilized in this volume also contribute to expand methodological horizons in the field while contributing to widening the corpus of literary texts and cultural practices in this area of studies.
Mabel Moraña, “Introduction. The Poetics of Race and “The Color-Line”; I Prisms of Race. Caribbean and Brazilian Encounters: Horacio Legrás, “Blackness, Post-Slavery and What Never Ceases Not to Write Itself”; Elzbieta Sklodowska, “Etched in Sugar, Soil, Metal, and Blood: The Plantationocene and the Afterlives of Racialized Plantation in Contemporary Cuban Art”; Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, “Policies of Repair in ‘Black’ Female Poetics: Nancy Morejón and Astrid Roemer”; María Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, “The Rise of the Black Hero: Heroic Imagination and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Brazil”; II Coloring Otherness in Mexico: Adela Pineda Franco, “Phantasms of our Deluded Eyes: Race in the Era of Cinematic Movement”; Mónica García Blizzard, “Marking Race and Class Privilege in Contemporary Mexican Cinema”; Ignacio López-Calvo, “The Limits of Nihonjinron: Issei Immigrants’ Literary Representation of Japaneseness in Mexico”; III Indigenenous Subjects: Representation and Resistance: Arturo Arias, “What Indigenous Literatures Tell Us About Race”; Anne Lambright, “Yuyachkani’s Andinismo: Performing (towards) a Poetics of Race”; Christian Elguera, “Anti-racist Spatial Narratives in Daniel Munduruku’s Crônicas de São Paulo: Indigenous Places-Names and Migration in the Paulista Capital City”.