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Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Photography and Writing in Latin America: Double Exposures by Marcy E. Schwartz

Authors: Marcy E. Schwartz (Editor), Mary Beth Tierney-Tello
ISBN-13: 9780826338082, ISBN-10: 0826338089
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Marcy E. Schwartz

Marcy E. Schwartz is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Schwartz is also the author of Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction and co-editor of Voice-Overs: Translation and Latin American Literature.

Mary Beth Tierney-Tello is chair and associate professor of Hispanic studies, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. Tierney-Tello is also the author of Allegories of Transgression and Transformation: Experimental Fiction by Women Writing Under Dictatorship.

Book Synopsis

This is the first book to document the extensive collaboration between writers and photographers in Latin America from the Mexican Revolution through the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1Representing the Mexican revolution : bending photographs to the will of Historia Grafica21
Ch. 2Idols Behind Altars : art, authorship, and authority in the Mexican cultural renaissance41
Ch. 3Narrative imag(in)ing : Susan Meiselas documents the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua59
Ch. 4On making images speak : writing and photography in three texts from Chile87
Ch. 5Writing against the city : Julio Cortazar's photographic take on India117
Ch. 6Recycled photographs : moving still images of Mexico city, 1950-2000139
Ch. 7Ekphrasis and the contest of representations in Tomas Eloy Martinez's La novela de Peron173
Ch. 8Hidden camera : the photographic theatre of Edgardo Rodriguez Julia193
Ch. 9"Things were different then" : photographic and narrative construction of loss in Eduardo Belgrano Rawson's Fuegia209
Ch. 10From Brazil, abroad, and black again : politics, place, and pictures - an interview with Sebastiao Salgado231
Ch. 11Literature and photography : parallel crafts - an interview with Elena Poniatowska243
Ch. 12Among friends : portraits of writers - an interview with Sara Facio251
Ch. 13La Escena de Avanzada : photography and writing in postcoup Chile - a conversation with Nelly Richard259

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