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MÃ©xico Noir: Rethinking the Dark in Contemporary Writing and Visual Culture

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These essays by critics, theorists and artists explore the allusive nexus of the dark in contemporary Mexican literature and visual culture. They chart the poetics of â€˜negrura-oscuridadâ€™ in creative media during decades of deepening crisis marked by the high-profile staging of atrocities, the re-emergence of an ironic noir aesthetic and the consolidation of forensically inspired art-making. In the wake of Walter Benjaminâ€™s â€˜unfinishedâ€™ thinking structures, this volume operates through contiguous directions, transitions and regressions, incorporating images as part of the discussion of a ruinous visuality. Its polycentric mesh covers a wide range of art, writing, photography and film: from ritual uses of the â€˜darksomeâ€™ and its legacies in pre-Hispanic cultures to colonial religious iconography of penitential blindness; from narco-noir in the novels of Roberto BolaÃ±o and Yuri Herrera to techno-noir in dystopian border films; from the quotidian taxonomy of horror expurgated in art practice to the haunted â€˜other darknessâ€™ of the photographic blink. It also explores how we can contest the threat of dark ecology and â€˜horrorismâ€™ through sense expansion within new media and by positing fruitful blind spots in text and art.

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