Description:
Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, gender, exclusion, resistance and emancipation.
Review Quotes:
"This book offers a series of updated essays on how the concept of race is configured in peculiar ways in literature, cinema and other cultural expressions from Latin America during the modern period. It is a useful and recommendable compilation of outstanding authors in the international academy." - José Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University, USA.