The Feeling Child : Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film.

Cover -- The Feeling Child -- The Feeling Child: Affect and Politics in Latin American Literature and Film -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Coached Feelings and Political Resocializations in Paula Markovitch's El premio (2011) -- Children and Affects: Feeling Playful, Being Entropic -- Performing Play, Disabling Friendships -- Displaced Childhoods: Individual Feelings, Public Affect -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 -- "El sitio más cómodo y propicio para vigilar la otra" -- Disrupting the Bounded Nature of the Home -- Liminal Spaces -- Affective Potentialities -- Child as Writerly Persona -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Reaching Childhood, Unlearning the Transition -- The Politics of Childhood, Dictatorship, and Transition -- Ways of Reading: A "Minor" Narrative of Transition -- Alternative Filiations: Parisian-Berlin-Santiago Childhood as a "Family Romance" -- To Conclude -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 -- An Infantile Witness in the New Bolivia -- Spatial Hierarchies and the Domestic Space as a Social and Psychological Prison -- An Infantile Witness -- Porous Borders, Liminal Spaces, and the Undecidable Process of Change -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Peruvian Wounds -- Counternarratives and the Chaski Group: Commitment to the Marginalized -- Alternative Images, Disruptive Solutions -- Poetics of Survival -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 -- The Diary of a Young Cuban Girl -- Have Children Been Left Behind by Affect Theory? -- The Child in Pain, Cuba in Pain -- Nieve's Inner Exile -- The Diary of a Young Cuban Girl -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the 'affective turn' in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America, compiles a series of essays on children's presence in selected Latin American literary and cinematic expressions.

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