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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793359103321

Titolo

The feeling child : affect and politics in Latin American literature and film / / edited by Philippa Page, Inela Selimović, and Camilla Sutherland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-7441-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 pages)

Collana

Children and youth in popular culture

Disciplina

809/.933523098

Soggetti

Children in motion pictures

Children in literature

Motion pictures - Latin America - History

Latin American literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Coached feelings and political re-socializations in Paula Markovitch's El premio (2011) / Inela Selimović -- "El sitio más cómodo y propicio para vigilar la otra" : spaces of childhood in the work of Norah Lange / Camilla Sutherland -- Reaching childhood, unlearning the transition: the space of memory in Alejandro Zambra's novel Ways of going home (Chile, 2011) / Philippa Page -- An infantile witness in the new Bolivia: Juan Carlos Valdivia's Zona sur (2009) / Peter Baker -- Peruvian wounds: children and violence in the fiction cinema of the Chaski Group, Gregorio (1984) and Juliana (1988) / Sarah Barrow -- The diary of a young Cuban girl: Nieve Guerra in Todos se van (Wendy Guerra 2006; Sergio Cabrera 2014) / Erin K. Hogan.

Sommario/riassunto

"This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the 'affective turn' in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America, compiles a series of essays on children's presence in selected Latin American literary and cinematic expressions"--