The slum and the city : culture and dissidence in the villas miseria of Buenos Aires / Agnese Codebò.
| Author/creator | Codebò, Agnese author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024] |
| Description | x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations. |
| Series | Illuminations: Cultural formations of the Americas series Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.) ^A594020 |
| Contents | How slums matter -- Excess materials : waste and the visual arts in the 1960s -- Poverty on show : the aestheticized city, slum literature, and trash books -- Speaking from la villa : the language of Cesar Gonzalez, hip-hop, cumbia villera, and Julio Arrieta -- All that matters is at the bottom : militant journalism and activism in the slums of Buenos Aires -- New alliances. |
| Abstract | "The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebò investigates how slums have produced culture as well as their representation in literature and the visual arts from the 1950s to the present. Looking at government-led urban projects as well as novels, artworks, films, militant magazines, poems, and music, she tells the story of how villas miseria have mattered culturally and socially as spaces that produce new aesthetics, cultural trends, and social alliances, while offering a vantage point to understand the city and its problems. Slums represent a heterogeneous urban space, and Codebò makes the case for their relevance in Argentine culture, demonstrates the need to rethink spaces of production, and develops a new premise for a decolonial approach to Argentine cultrual production."-- Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-195) and index. |
| LCCN | 2025421204 |
| ISBN | 9780822948094 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0822948095 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HV4070 .B84 C63 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |