Incorporations of Latin American Literature: Culture, Identity, Politics

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Incorporation, understood as the series of processes through which the individual, the social, or the political body takes in the Other, has been central to Latin American culture since its earliest beginnings. Through introjections that have transformed and reinscribed its body from within, Latin America has constantly entered into dialogue with ethnic, religious, and cultural heterogeneities. This panel will reflect on incorporation as a trope laden with political connotations. Among other subjects, it will explore themes such as cultural assimilation, the integration of working classes and indigenous communities to the national imaginary, and immigration.

Sub Track

• Culture, Power and Political Subjectivities

Session Organizer

• Ali Kulez, University of Southern California

Chair

• Ali Kulez, University of Southern California

Individual Presentations

• Eating, Speech, and Silence: O Movimento Antropofágico - Ali Kulez, University of Southern California

• Incorporating Poverty in Midcentury Buenos Aires - Agnese Codebo, Columbia University

• Questioning Identity Construction: Reflections on National Identity in Leopoldo Lugones’ “Un fenómeno inexplicable" - Maria Pape

• Everyday Forms of Telling Stories in the Fiction of Javier Castellanos - Leopoldo Peña