Telling Ruins in Latin America

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Telling Ruins....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Performing Ruins....Pages 13-26
Scribbling on the Wreck....Pages 27-38
“Oh tiempo tus pirámides”: Ruins in Borges....Pages 39-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Translating Ruins: An American Parable....Pages 51-62
Machu Picchu Recycled....Pages 63-75
The Ruins of the Present: Cuzco Evoked....Pages 77-86
Ruins in the Desert: Field Notes by a Filmmaker....Pages 87-94
The Twentieth Century as Ruin: Tango and Historical Memory....Pages 95-106
Modernist Ruins: The Case Study of Tlatelolco....Pages 107-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Pinochet’s Cadaver as Ruin and Palimpsest....Pages 121-134
Spatial Truth and Reconciliation: Peru, 2003–2004....Pages 135-145
“Words of the Dead”: Ruins, Resistance, and Reconstruction in Ayacucho....Pages 147-161
Tlatelolco: From Ruins to Poetry....Pages 163-173
Sites of Memory, Emptying Remembrance....Pages 175-182
History, Neurosis, and Subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra’s Rewriting of Neoliberal Ruins....Pages 183-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
All in a Day’s Work: Ruins Dwellers in Havana....Pages 197-209
Witness to the Ruins: An Artist’s Testimony....Pages 211-217
Coming Home to Praia de Flamengo: The Once and Future National Student Union Headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....Pages 219-228
Fernando Vallejo’s Ruinous Heterotopias: The Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces....Pages 229-240
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Charges and Discharges....Pages 241-248
Angels among Ruins....Pages 249-259
Back Matter....Pages 261-277