Telling Ruins in Latin America

Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Telling Ruins......Page 12
Part One: What Are We Doing Here?: Ruins, Performance, Meditation......Page 22
1 Performing Ruins......Page 24
2 Scribbling on the Wreck......Page 38
3 “Oh tiempo tus pirámides”: Ruins in Borges......Page 50
Part Two: Whose Ruins?: Ownership and Cross-Cultural Mappings......Page 60
4 Translating Ruins: An American Parable......Page 62
5 Machu Picchu Recycled......Page 74
6 The Ruins of the Present: Cuzco Evoked......Page 88
7 Ruins in the Desert: Field Notes by a Filmmaker......Page 98
8 The Twentieth Century as Ruin: Tango and Historical Memory......Page 106
9 Modernist Ruins: The Case Study of Tlatelolco......Page 118
Part Three: The Ruins of Fragile Ceasefires: Scenes of Loss and Memory......Page 130
10 Pinochet’s Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest......Page 132
11 Spatial Truth and Reconciliation: Peru, 2003–2004......Page 146
12 “Words of the Dead”: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho......Page 158
13 Tlatelolco: From Ruins to Poetry......Page 174
14 Sites of Memory, Emptying Remembrance......Page 186
15 History, Neurosis, and Subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra’s Rewriting of Neoliberal Ruins......Page 194
Part Four: Ordinary People: Inhabited Ruins, Precarious Survival......Page 206
16 All in a Day’s Work: Ruins Dwellers in Havana......Page 208
17 Witness to the Ruins: An Artist’s Testimony......Page 222
18 Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil......Page 230
19 Fernando Vallejo’s Ruinous Heterotopias: The Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces......Page 240
20 Charges and Discharges......Page 252
21 Angels among Ruins......Page 260
Contributors......Page 272
B......Page 278
C......Page 279
F......Page 280
I......Page 281
L......Page 282
M......Page 283
P......Page 284
R......Page 285
T......Page 286
Z......Page 287