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The Utopian Impulse in Latin America

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  1. Kim Beauchesne
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  2. Alessandra Santos
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos
      Pages 1-26

  3. Foundational Utopias

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Utopia in Latin America

      • Beatriz Pastor
      Pages 29-49

    3. Barataria from the Perspective of Spanish American “Colonial” Studies

      • José Antonio Mazzotti
      Pages 51-70

  4. Utopia and Modernity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Remnants of a Dream World

      • Alejandra Uslenghi
      Pages 73-92

    3. Ecocannibalism

      • Odile Cisneros
      Pages 93-106

    4. Eulalia in Utopia

      • Justin Read
      Pages 107-128

  5. Feminist Utopias

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán’s

      • Gisela Heffes
      Pages 131-143

    3. Revolution Interrupted

      • Wanda Rivera-Rivera
      Pages 145-170

  6. Utopia and Counterculture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Jorge Mautner and Countercultural Utopia in Brazil

      • Christopher Dunn
      Pages 173-185

    3. Spatial Effects

      • Elena Shtromberg
      Pages 187-200

  7. Revolutionary Utopias and the Politics of Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias

      • Juan Pablo Dabove
      Pages 203-224

    3. Utopia and the Politics of Memory

      • Diana Sorensen
      Pages 225-234

    4. The Innocent Eye

      • Rita De Grandis
      Pages 235-256

  8. Utopia and Ethnicity in the Twenty-First Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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About this book

An exploration of the concept of utopia in Latin America from the earliest accounts of the New World to current cultural production, the carefully selected essays in this volume represent the latest research on the topic by some of the most important Latin Americanists working in North American academia today.

About the authors

KIM BEAUCHESNEis Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
ALESSANDRA SANTOSis Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, USA.

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