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The Utopian Impulse in Latin America The Utopian Impulse in Latin America Edited by Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos THE UTOPIAN IMPULSE IN LATIN AMERICA Copyright © Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-10352-8 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28785-7 ISBN 978-0-230-33961-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230339613 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The utopian impulse in Latin America / edited by Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos. p. cm. 1. Utopias—Latin America. 2. Utopias in literature—Latin America. 3. Utopias in art—Latin America. I. Beauchesne, Kim, 1976– II. Santos, Alessandra, 1970– HX806.U79335 2011 335'.83098—dc22 2011014070 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: October 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Figures vii A Note on Translation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Theory and Practice of the Utopian Impulse in Latin America 1 Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos I Foundational Utopias 1 Utopia in Latin America: Cartographies and Paradigms 29 Beatriz Pastor 2 Barataria from the Perspective of Spanish American “Colonial” Studies: Contributions for a Reading of (Counter)Utopia in the Quijote and the New World 51 José Antonio Mazzotti II Utopia and Modernity 3 Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition 73 Alejandra Uslenghi 4 Ecocannibalism: The Greening of Antropofagia 93 Odile Cisneros 5 Eulalia in Utopia: Urban Space, Modernity, and Gendered Typologies in Rubén Darío and Hilda Hilst 107 Justin Read III Feminist Utopias 6 Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán’s Pérégrinations d’une paria 131 Gisela Heffes 7 Revolution Interrupted: The “Women of April” and the Utopia of National Liberation 145 Wanda Rivera- Rivera vi Contents IV Utopia and Counterculture 8 Jorge Mautner and Countercultural Utopia in Brazil 173 Christopher Dunn 9 Spatial Effects: Navigating the City in Cildo Meireles’s Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira 187 Elena Shtromberg V Revolutionary Utopias and the Politics of Memory 10 Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias: From Banditry to Party in Jorge Amado’s Seara Vermelha 203 Juan Pablo Dabove 11 Utopia and the Politics of Memory 225 Diana Sorensen 12 The Innocent Eye: Children’s Perspectives on the Utopias of the Seventies (O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, Machuca, and Kamchatka) 235 Rita De Grandis VI Utopia and Ethnicity in the Twenty- First Century 13 Urgent (Anti)Spectacles of Critical Hope 259 Carla Beatriz Melo 14 Recent Peruvian Quechua Poetry: Beyond Andean and Neoliberal Utopias 275 Ulises Juan Zevallos- Aguilar Notes on Contributors 295 Index 299 Figures 1.1 Juan de la Cosa’s Map (1500) 31 3.1 View of the Eiffel Tower and exhibition buildings on the Champ de Mars as seen from Trocadéro Palace, Paris Exhibition (1889) 76 3.2 Pavilion of Brazil, seen through the base of the Eiffel Tower, Paris Exhibition (1889) 78 3.3 Crowd of people on Cairo Street, Paris Exhibition (1889) 79 3.4 Eiffel Tower machinery with a man beside the wheel, Paris Exhibition (1889) 82 3.5 Interior of Gallery of Machines, showing machinery, Paris Exhibition (1889) 83 3.6 Pavilion of Mexico, Paris Exhibition (1889) 85 3.7 Pavilion of Argentina, Paris Exhibition (1889) 87 8.1 Photograph of Jorge Mautner (1972) 178 9.1 Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira by Cildo Meireles (1969) 188 9.2 Photographic panel from Arte Física (1969) 192 9.3 Map of Brasilia from Arte Física (1969) 195 13.1 Display of the “Zumbi Somos Nós” banner in a soccer stadium (2009) 265 13.2 Aerial photograph of the “SOS Amazonia” human banner (2009) 266 A Note on Translation Following the publisher’s guidelines, all the quotes that appear were translated into English. When no published translation is available, the quotes have been translated and their original version appears in the notes. We have also respected the publisher’s preference to attach the introductory “English translation of” to fragmented quotes in a foreign language to ensure they are grammatically complete.

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