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
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.
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.
Ch. 1 | Representing the Mexican revolution : bending photographs to the will of Historia Grafica | 21 |
Ch. 2 | Idols Behind Altars : art, authorship, and authority in the Mexican cultural renaissance | 41 |
Ch. 3 | Narrative imag(in)ing : Susan Meiselas documents the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua | 59 |
Ch. 4 | On making images speak : writing and photography in three texts from Chile | 87 |
Ch. 5 | Writing against the city : Julio Cortazar's photographic take on India | 117 |
Ch. 6 | Recycled photographs : moving still images of Mexico city, 1950-2000 | 139 |
Ch. 7 | Ekphrasis and the contest of representations in Tomas Eloy Martinez's La novela de Peron | 173 |
Ch. 8 | Hidden camera : the photographic theatre of Edgardo Rodriguez Julia | 193 |
Ch. 9 | "Things were different then" : photographic and narrative construction of loss in Eduardo Belgrano Rawson's Fuegia | 209 |
Ch. 10 | From Brazil, abroad, and black again : politics, place, and pictures - an interview with Sebastiao Salgado | 231 |
Ch. 11 | Literature and photography : parallel crafts - an interview with Elena Poniatowska | 243 |
Ch. 12 | Among friends : portraits of writers - an interview with Sara Facio | 251 |
Ch. 13 | La Escena de Avanzada : photography and writing in postcoup Chile - a conversation with Nelly Richard | 259 |