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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1. Esther Gabara. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil. .A John Hope Franklin Center BookDuke University Press, (November, 2008). [ref=sr_1_1]

Articles Published

1. "‘Juro que es mujer’: el archivo fotográfico de Conchita Jurado y Don Carlos Balmori. Las sexualidades performáticas en el México posrevolucionarios." Cultura visual e innovaciones tecnológicas en América Latina (desde 1840 a las vanguardias). Edited by González-Stephan, Beatriz.  (2012). (forthcoming (submitted))
2. "Orientalism Unmoored." Orit Raff: Shangri-La  (January, 2011): n.p..
3. Colectivo Situaciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina. "“Disquiet in the impasse: Coming from the Latin American Situation,”." http://micropolitics.wordpress.com/  (Winter, 2010). (forthcoming)
4. "Fighting It Out: Being Naco in the Global Lucha Libre." Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. Mexico Issue vol. 26 (2010): 277-300. [html]
5. "Perspectives on Scale: From the Atomic to the Universal." Art and Globalization. Edited by James Elkins, Alice S. Kim, and Zhivka Valiavicharska.  (2010): 200-204. [html]
6. "Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil." The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise. Edited by Erin Graff Zivin.  (2007): 63-104. [ref=sr_1_1]
7. ""Cannon and Camera": Photography and Colonialism in the Américas." ELN  vol. 44 no. 2 (Winter, 2006): 45-64. [pdfviewer]
8. "Recycled Photographs: Moving Still Images of Mexico City, 1950/2000." Double Exposure: Photography and Literature in Latin America. Edited by Marcy Schwartz and Mary Beth Tierney-Tello.  (2006): 139-172. [ref=sr_1_1]
9. "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”) [html]
10. "'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.
11. "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.
12. "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies  vol. 9 no. 2 (2000): 119-35.
13. Esther Gabara and Joy Conlon. "Moving the Avant-Garde." Stanford Humanities Review  vol. 7 no. 1 (June, 1999): vii-xii.
14. Silviano Santiago. "Two Strangers in Mexico." Stanford Humanities Review  vol. 7 no. 1 (June, 1999): vii-xii. (Trans. with Joy Conlon)
15. Joy Conlon. "Two Strangers in Mexico, by Silviano Santiago." Stanford Humanities Review  vol. 7 no. 1 (1999): 79-87.

Book in Progress

1. “Non-Literary Fiction: Invention and Interventions in Contemporary American Visual Culture” (2010) .

Book Reviews

1. Leonard Folgarait. "Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Álvarez Bravo." Caa.reviews (online), College Arts Association  (Winter, 2010).
2. "Review of Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture. Eds. Erik Camayd-Freixas and José Eduardo González." Latin American Literary Review  vol. 61 (Summer, 2003): 113-115.
3. "Review of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940. Eds. Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov." Nepantla: Views from South  vol. 4 no. 1 (2003): 201-207.

Articles Online

1. E. Gabara, Gestures, Practices, and Projects: [Latin] American Re-visions of Visual Culture and Performance Studies, E-misférica, vol. 7 no. 1 (2010) [e-misferica-71] .

Other

1. "Orit Raff: Inside Drawing."   (February, 2000): n.p..

Translation of a Book

1. by Pedro Lasch, with essays by Srinivas Aravamudan, Jennifer Gonzalez, Arnauld Maillet, Walter Mignolo, and Peter Sigal, Black Mirror/Espejo Negro (2010), Nasher Museum of Art and the Franklin Humanities Institute, distributed by Duke University Press .

Reviews of Published Books

1. Gallo, Rubén, Mexican Photography: From the Daguerrotype to Digital Images, Hispanic Review, vol. 39 no. 1 (Winter, 2011), pp. 135-141 .
2. Edwards, Elizabeth, Relocating Photographies, Histories and Modernisms, Art History, vol. 34 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 211-213 [pdf] .
3. Herlinghaus, Hermann, Review of Errant Modernism, MLN, vol. 26 no. 2 (2011), pp. 418-420 .
4. Sánchez Prado, Ignacio M., Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa, Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos, vol. 27 no. 2 (2011), pp. 449–469 .
5. Rawson, Kristy, Review of Errant Modernism, Aztlán. A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol. 36 no. 1 (2011), pp. 223-228 .
6. Gallo, Rubén, Review of Errant Modernism, Modernism/Modernity, vol. 18 no. 1 (2011), pp. 201-203 .
7. Segre, Erica, Review of Errant Modernism, etc., History of Photography, vol. 35 no. 1 (2011), pp. 85-88 .
8. Noble, Andrea, Review of Errant Modernism, A Contracorriente, vol. 8 no. 1 (Fall, 2010), pp. 442-447 [pdf] .
9. Flaherty, George, Review of Errant Modernism and National Camera, caa on-line reviews (August 12, 2010) [1500] .
10. Krippner, James, Errant Moderism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, The Americas, vol. 66 no. 3 (January, 2010), pp. 416-418 [html] .
11. Melo e Castro, Paul, Review of Errant Modernism, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 87 no. 7 (2010), pp. 894-895 .
12. Galvez, Alyshia, Review of Errant Modernism, E-misférica, vol. 7 no. 1 (2010) [galvez] .
13. Foster, David William, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 47 no. 1 (2010), pp. 227-229 [html] .
14. Carranza, L.E., Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, Choice, vol. 47 no. 1 (September, 2009) .
15. O’Toole, Gavin, The Errors of the Avant-Garde, The Latin American Review of Books (July 31, 2009) [available here] .
16. Fraser, Benjamin, Review of Errant Modernism, Chasqui, vol. 38 no. 2 (2009), pp. 185-187 [retrieve.do] .