The "L" Word: Rethinking the Latin-American Label in the New Millennium.

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel aims at creating a debate about the different approaches and labels that have been used to define Latin American cultural production. In the case of the Crack group, its members promoted a new global form of understanding Latin American literature of the new millennium using representations of science and technology. The audiovisual representations of Narco-violence distributed internationally project a hegemonic and fictitious image of the continent. Finally, we will address the question of how useful will it be to read Latin American cultural production in dialogue with the work of artists from different cultural backgrounds in similar circumstances.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Giannina A Reyes Giardiello, University of Portland

Chair

• Sarli E Mercado, University of Wisconsin/Madison

Individual Presentations

• Después del Crack: Artefactos y esoterismo en El daño no es de ayer de Ignacio Padilla - Oscar A Pérez, Skidmore College

• “Streaming” Latinoamérica: representaciones televisivas de la violencia - Giannina A Reyes Giardiello, University of Portland

• Geographical Directions: Ways of reading and seeing Latin America. - Sarli E Mercado, University of Wisconsin/Madison