Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia: Global Latin/o Americas
Autor Lorena Cuya Gavilanoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 mar 2021
Lorena Cuya Gavilano’s Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia is an aesthetic and cultural analysis of how political and economic trends have impacted narratives about migration in Peru and Bolivia in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Going beyond representations of migrants as subjects of crisis, Fictions of Migration approaches the migrant as a subject of knowledge, examining how narratives of migrancy in the Andes have become affective epistemological tools to learn about migrants’ experiences, cultural roots, and the mishaps of modernity that caused their displacement in the first place. Through the examination of films and novels—by such writers and filmmakers as José María Arguedas, Blanca Wiethüchter, Daniel Alarcón, Claudia Llosa, Jorge Sanjinés, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Jesús Urzagasti, and Paolo Agazzi, among others–Cuya Gavilano looks at the intersection of crisis, knowledge, and affect in order to piece together seemingly incompatible images of migrancy. She explores how dissimilar images of migration in two countries with a common ethnic and cultural history are the result of differentiated emotional and social responses to the adoption and adaptation of neoliberal economic agendas. Fictions of Migration thereby shows Andean stories of displacement can serve as distinctive models to understand multiethnic national spaces globally.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814214657
ISBN-10: 0814214657
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Global Latin/o Americas
ISBN-10: 0814214657
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Global Latin/o Americas
Recenzii
“Fictions of Migration, a rigorous book from the academic point of view, thoroughly researched, ethically and strongly argued, offers a heartbreaking thesis on the evolution of the image of the migrant ... Cuya Gavilano energetically defends the power of culture to create a convincingly fresh social imaginary.” —Sara Barrow, Trama Crítica
“Fictions of Migration is a much-needed meditation on the meanings and manifestations of migration within Andean narrative practices, specifically film and novel. It is a more than auspicious moment to be considering migration and what it means, and this study does this admirably.” —Jorge Coronado, author of Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900–1950
Notă biografică
Lorena Cuya Gavilano is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Arizona State University, Phoenix.
Extras
This book examines stories that tell the migrant’s journey as a journey of knowledge and affects. Sentiments of love, hatred, anger, disgust, and grief directed toward the displaced certainly have an impact in their bodies and psyches. They make the migrant a repository of public feelings and ideologies. In recent years, populations around the world have transformed feelings of economic, social, cultural, and racial uncertainty into hate or grief. Longing for an idealized greatness of the past, some people have identified the migrant with the dangers of the present and the anxieties for the future.
Portrayals of a worldwide migration crisis have captivated people’s imagination. They have also created unprecedented challenges for national and international communities as negative stereotypes of the displaced have prompted fears and nationalist sentiments. Migration, however, is not in essence a disaster. Contrary to representations of migrants as subjects of crisis, many Andean fictions of migration present them as subjects of knowledge. Stories of migrancy in the Andes represent an affective epistemological tool to learn about the migrant’s cultural roots and simultaneously understand the mishaps of modernity in this region. Through the analysis of contemporary films and novels from Peru and Bolivia, this book puts crisis, knowledge, and affects side by side in order to piece together seemingly incompatible images of migrancy. Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia shows how bodily or psychological affects, positive and negative, have become a common characteristic in narratives of displacement. They are epistemological tools in the transmission of the migrant’s experience.
Since migration is more than motion, the way we refer to it matters. The different ways in which migration is narrated indicate different forms of social and economic bonding among migrants and between migrants and their host societies. Such narratives consolidate the imagination of different national communities (Anderson) and communities of sentiments (Appadurai). Hence, internal or external displacements have the power to rewrite any nation and any national sentiment.
Fictions of Migration explores the affective and epistemological value of Andean migratory accounts resulting from contemporary socioeconomic conflicts. It highlights the narrative relevance of emotional and physical affections in determining the place of migrants within national imaginaries. The book focuses on narratives of migration in Peru and Bolivia, countries with similar ethnic, social, and cultural histories, but whose cultural productions and social movements reflect distinctive adaptations to industrial and neoliberal agendas and, therefore, different ways to look at the migrant. Naturally, this analysis could be expanded to Ecuador and Colombia to reflect the multiplicity of issues arising from this topic. But, the particularities of other regional disputes beyond coastal and Sierra divides within these countries deserves a larger analysis.
The connections to global economic and political networks along with the subsequent separation of family members have marked a narrative turn in Latin American cultural productions. Stories of migration are gaining the same importance as previously branded narratives such as foundational fictions (Sommer) and magical realism that have characterized the region for a long time. Love stories, marvels, and chaos have historically contributed to the understanding of the sociocultural, ethnic, and racial fabric composing the lands below the Rio Grande. Today, migrational fictions, as I call stories of migration, are essential to understand contemporary Latin America and reflect the intricacies of human mobility and global markets. During the last sixty years, Andean accounts of displacement have illustrated distinctive aesthetic and political itineraries responding to rapid modernization and global dynamics that still require further exploration.
Portrayals of a worldwide migration crisis have captivated people’s imagination. They have also created unprecedented challenges for national and international communities as negative stereotypes of the displaced have prompted fears and nationalist sentiments. Migration, however, is not in essence a disaster. Contrary to representations of migrants as subjects of crisis, many Andean fictions of migration present them as subjects of knowledge. Stories of migrancy in the Andes represent an affective epistemological tool to learn about the migrant’s cultural roots and simultaneously understand the mishaps of modernity in this region. Through the analysis of contemporary films and novels from Peru and Bolivia, this book puts crisis, knowledge, and affects side by side in order to piece together seemingly incompatible images of migrancy. Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia shows how bodily or psychological affects, positive and negative, have become a common characteristic in narratives of displacement. They are epistemological tools in the transmission of the migrant’s experience.
Since migration is more than motion, the way we refer to it matters. The different ways in which migration is narrated indicate different forms of social and economic bonding among migrants and between migrants and their host societies. Such narratives consolidate the imagination of different national communities (Anderson) and communities of sentiments (Appadurai). Hence, internal or external displacements have the power to rewrite any nation and any national sentiment.
Fictions of Migration explores the affective and epistemological value of Andean migratory accounts resulting from contemporary socioeconomic conflicts. It highlights the narrative relevance of emotional and physical affections in determining the place of migrants within national imaginaries. The book focuses on narratives of migration in Peru and Bolivia, countries with similar ethnic, social, and cultural histories, but whose cultural productions and social movements reflect distinctive adaptations to industrial and neoliberal agendas and, therefore, different ways to look at the migrant. Naturally, this analysis could be expanded to Ecuador and Colombia to reflect the multiplicity of issues arising from this topic. But, the particularities of other regional disputes beyond coastal and Sierra divides within these countries deserves a larger analysis.
The connections to global economic and political networks along with the subsequent separation of family members have marked a narrative turn in Latin American cultural productions. Stories of migration are gaining the same importance as previously branded narratives such as foundational fictions (Sommer) and magical realism that have characterized the region for a long time. Love stories, marvels, and chaos have historically contributed to the understanding of the sociocultural, ethnic, and racial fabric composing the lands below the Rio Grande. Today, migrational fictions, as I call stories of migration, are essential to understand contemporary Latin America and reflect the intricacies of human mobility and global markets. During the last sixty years, Andean accounts of displacement have illustrated distinctive aesthetic and political itineraries responding to rapid modernization and global dynamics that still require further exploration.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments Introduction Fictions of Migration: Affective Journeys, Affective Knowledge Chapter 1 Anxiety for the Future: Migration in Peruvian Cinema Chapter 2 On the Edge: Peruvian Narratives of Migration Chapter 3 Affective Epistemes: Bolivian Cinema of Migration Chapter 4 Alternative Communities: Bolivian Narratives of Migration Afterword Emotions, Imaginations, and the Future of Migrants Works Cited Index
Descriere
Analyzes the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.