Reviews in May 2009

LatAmRoB, Volume 3, Number 5


The puppet master’s testament

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2666, Roberto Bolaño’s dark, furious, final burst of creativity as he was dying was, inevitably, fascinated with death - yet reveals an extraordinary eye for the living

 

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Blood and snow in the Andes

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A trio of titles about cocaine trafficking turn the spotlight on the Andean ‘war on drugs’ and whether the Obama presidency can resist the US reflex to continue using force Continue reading

Eyes of the tlamatinime

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Spirituality lies at the heart of a groundbreaking study of Chicana
art with a disdain for the patriarchal

 

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Epidemic of the imagination

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Carmen Boullosa has achieved a whispered, confessional first person in her exploration
of the power of memory

 

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Master of allusion

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As the Chilean cult master Alejandro Jodorowsky prepares to make another film, Eugene Carey looks at an earlier reinvention in his controversial career

 

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Making sense of fuzzy regionalism

New Regionalism is the hydra with many heads for centralising states jealously guarding their power Continue reading

On the aesthetics of banditry

A pioneering work by the most controversial figure of Brazil’s Cinema Novo has left its mark Continue reading

Land and liberty

The story of Ricardo Flores Magón’s anarchist organisation, the Partido Liberal Mexicano, is long
out of print - but well worth tracking down Continue reading

Strange alliances in a search for identity

A key theme threading throughout The Ecuador Reader is diversity amid the quest for unity Continue reading

Salt in the Sand

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Fidel

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The Initials of the Earth

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Sugarlandia Revisited

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