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20th Century Latin American Visual Culture and Literature

Esther Gabara received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University in 2001. She has published articles on the relationship between literature and visual culture in Latin America during the 20th century, focusing mainly on modern and contemporary Mexico, Brazil, and the Spanish Caribbean. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Ethos of Modernism: Photographic Aesthetics in Mexico and Brazil, which examines Latin American modernism of the 1920s and 1930s at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics.

Education:

• PhD in Comparative Literature Stanford 2001
• MA in Comparative Literature Stanford 1997
• BA in Comparative Literature University of Pennsylvania 1993

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Summer, 2008), Duke University Press .
2. "Facing Brazil: The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime." CR: The New Centennial Review  vol. 4 no. 2 (2004): 33-76. (Special issue entitled “Phosphorescent Memory: Visual Culture in the Americas”)
3. "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies  vol. 9 no. 2 (2000): 119-35.
4. "Engendering Nation: Las bellas artes públicas and the Mexican Photo-essay, 1920-1940." Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature  vol. 49 (Fall, 2001): 139-154.
5. "'Nunca olhei tão olhado em minha vida e está sublime’: O (auto)retrato e a fotografia na obra de Mário de Andrade." A Historiografia Literária e as Técnicas de Escrita. Do Manuscrito ao Hipertexto. Edited by Flora Süssekind and Tânia Dias.  (2004): 169-190.