Reconocimientos: A Memoir of Becoming - Couverture souple

Sánchez, Rafael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1531510051 ISBN 13 : 9781531510053

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2025

Synopsis

What is the relationship between a writer’s life, milieu, and thought? In this daring and intellectually expansive text, part memoir and part political philosophy, the anthropologist Rafael Sánchez explores the forces and events that shaped him and the nations through which he moved. Reconocimientos is a book of both personal and political reckoning, from the thrillingly emancipatory possibilities of Venezuela’s plazas to the political promise and disappointments of revolution. Written in the final year of his life, Reconocimientos moves from scenes of Sánchez’s youth in Cuba to fieldwork on the cult of Maria Lionza in Venezuela to confront the terrifying and alluring forces of patriarchal privilege at the base of monumentalist authoritarianism. Sánchez’s intimate prose speaks with the urgency both of his own mortality and of the political crises of our moment. Amid the resurgence of patriarchy, hierarchy, and the valorization of inequality that have become pillars of populist movements in Latin America and beyond, Sánchez finds a residual radical possibility in ‘horizontal’ spaces, where the forces of mimesis permit manifold transformations.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Rafael Sánchez (1950-2024) was senior lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He is the author of Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism (Fordham, 2016).

Igor Barreto is a Venezuelan poet, editor and translator. He has been Director of Publications at the Museo Jacobo Borges in Caracas, Director of the Cinemateca Nacional, Director of Collections of the Fundación de Etnomusicología y Folklore, and Director of Imprenta Anauco.

Luis Pérez-Oramas is a Venezuelan poet, art historian and curator. He is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and numerous catalogue texts and critical essays. In 2011, he was Curatorial Director of the Sao Paolo Biennale. From 2006 to 2017, he was Latin American Art Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation (2021).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1531510051
• ISBN 13: 9781531510053
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Morris Rosalind C.
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• Personne responsable: non disponible