The slum and the city : culture and dissidence in the villas miseria of Buenos Aires /

The slum and the city : culture and dissidence in the villas miseria of Buenos Aires /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Codebò, Agnese, author.
Imprint:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024]
Description:	x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Illuminations: Cultural formations of the Americasseries Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subject:	Slums -- History -- Social aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires. Poor -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13503281

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Varying Form of Title:	Culture and dissidence in the villas miseria of Buenos Aires
ISBN:	0822948095 9780822948094
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The Argentine capital is largely perceived as a middle-class space. Yet in reality, urban poverty and precarious settlements are defining features of the city. Agnese Codebo investigates how slums have produced culture as well as their representation in literature and the visual arts from the 1950s to the present. Looking at government-led urban projects as well as novels, artworks, films, militant magazines, poems, and music, she tells the story of how villas miseria have mattered culturally and socially as spaces that produce new aesthetics, cultural trends, and social alliances, while offering a vantage point to understand the city and its problems. Slums represent a heterogeneous urban space, and Codebo makes the case for their relevance in Argentine culture, demonstrates the need to rethink spaces of production, and develops a new premise for a decolonial approach to Argentine cultrual production."--

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