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The Slum and the City
Culture and Dissidence in the Villas Miseria of Buenos Aires
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About this book
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 Codebò 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 Codebò 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How Slums Matter
- Chapter 1: Excess Materials: Waste and the Visual Arts in the 1960s
- Chapter 2: Poverty on Show: The Aestheticized City, Slum Literature, and Trash Books
- Chapter 3: Speaking from La Villa: The Language of César González, Hip-Hop, Cumbia Villera, and Julio Arrieta
- Chapter 4: All That Matters Is at the Bottom: Militant Journalism and Activism in the Slums of Buenos Aires
- Conclusion: New Alliances
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author