Bücher der Reihe Border Hispanisms

With case studies that link practices of concentration to the emergence of new racial categories, this groundbreaking book convincingly argues that race was a product of, rather than a starting point for, the spatial politics of colonial rule in Latin America.

This aesthetic reading of politics, society, and culture during and after the Mexican Revolution illuminates how culture mediates power and, rather than uniting a people, collects heterogeneous communities into a diverse archive of memory.

Examining the works of writers and artists such as Roberto Bolano, Fernando Botero, Pablo Larrain, and Alejandro Zambra, this pathfinding book challenges postdictatorial aesthetics by focusing on the concept of aesthetic autonomy as a critique of economic

This rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.