Telling Ruins in Latin America

1. Introduction: Telling Ruins
Michael J. Lazzara, Vicky Unruh

Part One. What Are We Doing Here?: Ruins, Performance, Meditation

2. Performing Ruins
Diana Taylor

3. Scribbling on the Wreck
Francine Masiello

4. “Oh tiempo tus pirámides”: Ruins in Borges
Daniel Balderston

Part Two. Whose Ruins?: Ownership and Cross-Cultural Mappings

5. Translating Ruins: An American Parable
Sylvia Molloy

6. Machu Picchu Recycled
Regina Harrison

7. The Ruins of the Present: Cuzco Evoked
Sara Castro-Klarén

8. Ruins in the Desert: Field Notes by a Filmmaker
Andrés Tella

9. The Twentieth Century as Ruin: Tango and Historical Memory
María Rosa Olivera-Williams

10. Modernist Ruins: The Case Study of Tlatelolco
Rubén Gallo

Part Three. The Ruins of Fragile Ceasefires: Scenes of Loss and Memory

11. Pinochet’s Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest
Michael J. Lazzara

12. Spatial Truth and Reconciliation: Peru, 2003–2004
Jill Lane

13. “Words of the Dead”: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho
Leslie Bayers

14. Tlatelolco: From Ruins to Poetry
Sandra Messinger Cypess

15. Sites of Memory, Emptying Remembrance
Nelly Richard

16. History, Neurosis, and Subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra’s Rewriting of Neoliberal Ruins
Idelber Avelar

Part Four. Ordinary People: Inhabited Ruins, Precarious Survival

17. All in a Day’s Work: Ruins Dwellers in Havana
Vicky Unruh

18. Witness to the Ruins: An Artist’s Testimony
Rolf Abderhalden Cortés

19. Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Victoria Langland

20. Fernando Vallejo’s Ruinous Heterotopias: The Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces
Arturo Arias

21. Charges and Discharges
Diamela Eltit

22. Angels among Ruins
Sandra Lorenzano, Para Marisel María

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Film History, North American Literature, Architecture, general, Arts, Latin American Culture