The Slum and the City: Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822948094)

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 Codeb? 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 Codeb? 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 cultural production.

Author: Agnese Codeb?
ISBN-10: 0822948095
ISBN-13: 9780822948094
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 05/21/2024
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.10d