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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed during this period of financial meltdown and national emergency, examining in particular how the neoliberal crisis led to the critical self-questioning of the dominant imaginary of Argentina as homogeneously white – allegedly the result of European immigration and the extinction of most indigenous and black people in the nation-building age. The Darkening Nation focuses on how the self-examination of racial and national identity triggered by this crisis was expressed in culture, through the analysis of literary texts, films, artworks and music styles. By considering a wide range of artistic and cultural products, and different forms of racial identity and difference (white, indigenous, Afro-descendant, immigrant and negro as it is understood in local contexts), this study constitutes a timely addition from a literary and cultural studies perspective to recent academic enquiry into race and nation in Argentina.

Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Exceptionalism
Migration
Space
Multiculturalism
Structure and texts
Chapter 1: Neoliberalism and its crisis
Chapter 2: The historical construction of whiteness in Argentina
Chapter 3: Facing darkness in the literature of the crisis
Literary production and the crisis
‘Asterix el encargado’
La Villa
Cucurto
Chapter 4: ‘A Bolivian walks into a bar…’: Race in New Argentinian Cinema
The renovation of Argentinian cinema
Bolivia
Copacabana
Chapter 5: Amerindians, fashion models and picketeers
Huellas
La conquista del desierto
Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC)
Chapter 6: Cumbia villera and the new racialised marginality
Cumbia music in Argentina
The boom of cumbia villera
Racialising the villero youth
Afterword
Works cited

Sujets

Literary Criticism

Latin American

Caribbean

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	12 avril 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781786832221
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	7 Mo

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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

The Darkenîng Natîon

Series Editors Professor Davîd George (Swansea Unîversîty) Professor Pau Garner (Unîversîty of Leeds)

Editorial Board Davîd Frîer (Unîversîty of Leeds) Lîsa Shaw (Unîversîty of Lîverpoo) Gareth Waters (Swansea Unîversîty) Rob Stone (Unîversîty of Bîrmîngham) Davîd Gîes (Unîversîty of Vîrgînîa) Catherîne Davîes (Unîversîty of London) Rîchard Cemînson (Unîversîty of Leeds) Duncan Wheeer (Unîversîty of Leeds) Jo Labanyî (New York Unîversîty) Roger Bartra (Unîversîdad Nacîona Autónoma de Méxîco)

Other titles in the series Cataonîa: Natîona Identîty and Cutura Poîcy Kathryn Cramerî Meanchoy and Cuture: Dîseases of the Sou în Goden Age Spaîn Roger Bartra The Poetîcs of Otherness în Antonîo Machado’s ‘Proverbîos y Cantares’ Nîcoas Fernandez-Medîna The Spanîsh Goden Age Sonnet John Rutherford María Zambrano: A Lîfe of Poetîc Reason and Poîtîca Commîtment Beatrîz Cabaero Rodríguez Natîonaîsm and Transnatîonaîsm în Spaîn and Latîn Amerîca, 1808–1923 Pau Garner and Ange Smîth (eds) The Enîghtenment în Iberîa and Ibero-Amerîca Brîan Hamnett Gracîîano Ramos and the Makîng of Modern Brazî: Memory, Poîtîcs and Identîtîes Sara Brandeero and Lucîa Vîares (eds)

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

The Darkenîng Natîon Race, Neoîberaîsm and Crîsîs în Argentîna

IGNACIO AGUILÓ

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2018

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¿Te acordás cuando regresaste enamorado de tu vîaje por todo Latînoamérîca? … Que te sentías atînoamerîcano … Me decías que para eos éramos Nueva York, y que por suerte a Argentîna nunca îba a estar en e nîve de pobreza que vîvían eos. ¿Te acordás? … Bueno, ahora nos hemos atînoamerîcanîzado, andá a barrîo de Once y vas a ver en qué se transformó, otro que un mercado persa. ¿De qué te quejás?, tenés que estar contento, ahora sos un atînoamerîcano de verdad …

Enrîque Medîna –La espera îninîta(2001)

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Contents

Serîes Edîtors’ Foreword Lîst of Fîgures Acknowedgements

Introductîon Exceptîonaîsm Mîgratîon Space Mutîcuturaîsm Structure and texts Neoîberaîsm and îts crîsîs The hîstorîca constructîon of whîteness în Argentîna Facîng darkness în the îterature of the crîsîs Lîterary productîon and the crîsîs ‘Asterîx, e encargado’ La Vîa Cucurto ‘A Boîvîan waks înto a bar …’: race în New Argentînîan Cînema The renovatîon of Argentînîan cînema Boîvîa CopacabanaAmerîndîans, fashîon modes and pîcketeers Hueas La conquîsta de desîerto Grupo de Arte Caejero (GAC)

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1 10 11 15 17 20 25 38 51 52 57 62 67

84 86 91 100 109 111 123 132

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Contents

Cumbîa vîeraand the new racîaîsed margînaîty Cumbîamusîc în Argentîna The boom ofcumbîa vîera Racîaîsîng thevîeroyouth

Afterword Notes Works cîted Index

141 143 146 149

166 174 203 225

Series Editors’ Foreword

Over recent decades the tradîtîona ‘anguages and îteratures’ mode în Spanîsh departments în unîversîtîes în the Unîted Kîngdom has been superseded by a contextua, înterdîscîpînary and ‘area studîes’ approach to the study of the cuture, hîstory, socîety and poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words – catego-rîes that extend far beyond the conines of the Iberîan Penînsua, not ony în Latîn Amerîca but aso to Spanîsh-speakîng and Lusophone Afrîca. In response to these dynamîc trends în research prîorîtîes and currîcuum deveopment, thîs serîes îs desîgned to present both dîscîpînary and înterdîscîpînary research wîthîn the genera ied of Iberîan and Latîn Amerîcan Studîes, partîcuary studîes that expore a aspects of Cutura Productîon (înter aîa îterature, im, musîc, dance, sport) în Spanîsh, Portuguese, Basque, Cataan, Gaîcîan and îndîgenous anguages of Latîn Amerîca. The serîes aso aîms to pubîsh research în the Hîstory and Poîtîcs of the Hîspanîc and Lusophone words, at the eve of both the regîon and the natîon-state, as we as on Cutura Studîes that expore the shîftîng terraîns of gender, sexua, racîa and postcoonîa îdentîtîes în those same regîons.