The Utopian Impulse in Latin America

Introduction: The Theory and Practice of the Utopian Impulse in Latin America; K.Beauchesne & A.Santos PART I: FOUNDATIONAL UTOPIAS Utopia in Latin America: Cartographies and Paradigms; B.Pastor Barataria from the Perspective of Hispanic American 'Colonial' Studies: Contributions for a Reading of (Counter)Utopia in the Quijote and the New World; J.Antonio Mazzotti PART II: UTOPIA AND MODERNITY Remnants of a Dream World: Latin American Pavilions at the Paris 1889 Universal Exhibition; A.Uslenghi Ecocannibalism: The Greening of Antropofagia; O.Cisneros Eulalia in Utopia: Urban Space, Modernity, and Gendered Typologies in Rubén Darío and Hilda Hilst; J.Read PART III: FEMINIST UTOPIAS Southern Displacements in Flora Tristán's Pérégrinations d'une paria; G.Heffes Revolution Interrupted: The 'Women of April' and the Utopia of National Liberation; W.Rivera-Rivera PART IV: UTOPIA AND COUNTERCULTURE Jorge Mautner and Countercultural Utopia in Brazil; C.Dunn Spatial Effects: Navigating the City in Cildo Meireles's Arte Física: Caixas de Brasília/Clareira; E.Shtromberg PART V: REVOLUTIONARY UTOPIAS AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias: From Banditry to Party in Jorge Amado's Seara Vermelha; J.Pablo Dabove Utopia and the Politics of Memory; D.Sorensen The Innocent Eye: Children's Perspectives on the Utopias of the Seventies (O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, Machuca, and Kamchatka); R.De Grandis PART VI: UTOPIA AND ETHNICITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Urgent (Anti)Spectacles of Critical Hope; C.Melo Recent Peruvian Quechua Poetry: Beyond Andean and Neoliberal Utopias; U.Juan Zevallos-Aguilar

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