Reviews in August 2009

LatAmRoB, Volume 3, Number 8


Birth of unrestrained realism

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The Mexican writer David Toscana uses a familiar map of Latin America’s solitudes to chart an unfamiliar narrative course

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They can paint over the walls …

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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca is a striking visual testament to the 2006 rebellion in the southern Mexican state

 

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The Earth turned to bring us closer

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If an image is worth a thousand words, some of those will need to be read, not heard, to be fully understood. Montague Kobbe and Adolfo Calero explore poetry and the cinematic code

 

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Trashy heroes

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You can build citizenship from mounds of garbage - but it takes political will, and you will need the help of one of Latin America’s most marginalised groups Continue reading

The many voices of Serna

Eli Gardner reassesses an early work by Enrique Serna to argue that the Mexican writer should be read, watched … and translated in the years to come

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Seeking red in the pink

A new survey of the leftward drift across Latin America urges analytical caution in understanding this as the so-called ‘pink tide’ Continue reading

Life As It Is: Selected Stories

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La Patria del Criollo: An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala

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Anonymous Celebrity

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Thursday Night Widows

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