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Books

1. Gabara, E. Non-Literary Fiction Art of the Americas Under Neoliberalism.  University of Chicago Press, 2022.
2. Gabara, E. Pop América, 1965-1975. October, 2018: 200 pages.  [abs]
3. Lasch, BP; Aravamudan, EBS; Jennifer Gonzalez, AM; Mignolo, W; Sigal, P. Black Mirror/Espejo Negro.  Nasher Museum of Art and the Franklin Humanities Institute, distributed by Duke University Press, 2010.
4. Gabara, E. Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil.  A John Hope Franklin Center Book Duke University Press, November, 2008. [ref=sr_1_1]

Book in Progress

1. Gabara, EL. “El laberinto de la hermandad: Me-Xicano Photography and Protest.”.  University of Washington Press/ Autry National Center/ Chicano Studies Research Center, February, 2020.
2. Gabara, EL. “Missing Body Art: Absent Identity in the Work of Tatiana Parcero.”. January, 2017.
3. Gabara, EL. “Crossing the Border: Whether Real or Imagined.”.  Smithsonian Institute/ Zócalo Public Square, May, 2015. [#esther-gabara]
4. Gabara, EL. Non-Literary Fiction: Invention and Interventions in Contemporary Latin American Art. 2012.
5. Gabara, EL. Arte y colonialidad: Arte latinoamericano en España. 2012.
6. Gabara, EL. Orit Raff: Inside Drawing.  Pamphlet, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, and Galerie Paula Boettcher, Berlin, February, 2000: n.p.-n.p..

Articles in a Collection

1. Gabara, E. "El signo de la moda/ The Sign of Fashion." Un arte sin tutela / Art Without Guardianship Salon independiente en Mexico, 1968-1971 / Salón Independiente in Mexico 1968-1971. 2018.  [abs]
2. Gabara, EL. "Photography, Avant-Garde and Modernity." A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American & Latino Art Ed. Anreus, A; Greeley, R; Sullivan, M. Blackwell Companions to Art History Series2015.
3. Gabara, EL. "Landscape: Errant Modernism and Aesthetics in Brazil." Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms Ed. Brien, EO; Nicodemus, E; Chiu, M; Benjamin Genocchio, MKC; Tejada, R. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 353-361. Reprint of excerpt from Errant Modernism
4. Gabara, EL. "Orientalism Unmoored." Orit Raff: Shangri-La. Tel Aviv, Israel: A’ Point Books/ Noga Callery of Contemporary Art, January, 2011, n.p.-n.p..
5. Gabara, EL. "Perspectives on Scale: From the Atomic to the Universal." Art and Globalization Ed. Elkins, J; Kim, AS; Valiavicharska, Z. Penn State Press, 2010, 200-204. [html]
6. Gabara, EL. "Modernist Ethics: Really Engaging Popular Culture in Mexico and Brazil." The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise Ed. Zivin, EG. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, 63-104. [ref=sr_1_1]
7. Gabara, EL. "Recycled Photographs: Moving Still Images of Mexico City, 1950/2000." Double Exposure: Photography and Literature in Latin America Ed. Schwartz, M; Tierney-Tello, MB. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006, 139-172. [ref=sr_1_1]
8. Gabara, EL. "’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 Ed. Süssekind, F; Dias, T. Vieira e Lent/ Edições Casa de Rui Barbosa, 2004, 169-190.

Translation in a Journal

1. Colectivo Situaciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, trans. “Disquiet in the impasse: Coming from the Latin American Situation,”. http://micropolitics.wordpress.com/  (Winter, 2010). forthcoming

Reviews of Published Books

1. Gabara, E, "“Doing unpayable debt”". Cultural Dynamics 35:4 (November, 2023): 237-244. [doi]  [abs]
2. Gabara, E; Adey, I, "The Bermuda Triangle of Madrid’s Museums: The Prado, the Museum of the Americas and the National Museum of Anthropology". Art in Translation 12:2 (January, 2020): 128-149. [doi]  [abs]
3. Gabara, EL, "“Crossing the Border: Whether Real or Imagined.”". What It Means to Be American  (May, 2015). [#esther-gabara]
4. Gabara, E, "Fictions of emancipation: Collaborations with and against the law". English Language Notes 51:1 (Summer, 2013): 173-181. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
5. Gabara, EL, "El triángulo museológico de las Bermudas: El Prado, el Museo de América y el Museo Nacional de Antropología". Revista SUR/versión. Investigación y creación de América Latina y el Caribe 2:2 (2013).
6. Gabara, E, "El triángulo museológico de las Bermudas: El Prado, el Museo de América y el Museo Nacional de Antropología". El D_Efecto Barroco: Políticas De La Imagen Hispana  (June, 2012). [available here]
7. Noble, A, "Review of Errant Modernism". A Contracorriente 8 (2012): 442-447. [pdf]
8. Oldfield, P, "Review of Errant Modernism". Bulletin of Latin American Research 31:3 (2012): 409-410.
9. Edwards, E, "Relocating Photographies, Histories and Modernisms". Art History 34:1 (January, 2011): 211-213. [pdf]
10. Segre, E, "Review of Errant Modernism, etc.". History of Photography 35:1 (2011): 85-88.
11. Delgado, Z; Patricia, M, "Review of Errant Modernism". E.I.A.L. 22:1 (2011): 179-181.
12. Preciado, CD, "Review of Errant Modernism". Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 15 (2011): 216-217.
13. Gallo, R, "Review of Errant Modernism". Modernism/Modernity 18:1 (2011): 201-203.
14. Rawson, K, "Review of Errant Modernism". Aztlán. A Journal of Chicano Studies 36:1 (2011): 223-228.
15. Prado, S; Ignacio, M, "Estrategias para mirar la nación. El giro visual de los estudios culturales mexicanos en lengua inglesa". Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos 27:2 (2011): 449–469-449–469.
16. Herlinghaus, H, "Review of Errant Modernism". MLN 26:2 (2011): 418-420.
17. Folgarait, L, "Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti, and Álvarez Bravo".   (Winter, 2011). [repository]
18. Noble, Andrea, "Review of Errant Modernism". A Contracorriente 8:1 (Fall, 2010): 442-447. [pdf]
19. Flaherty, G, "Review of Errant Modernism and National Camera". caa on-line reviews  (August, 2010). [1500]
20. Krippner, J, "Errant Moderism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil". The Americas 66:3 (January, 2010): 416-418. [html]
21. Foster, DW, "Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil". Luso-Brazilian Review 47:1 (2010): 227-229. [html]
22. Galvez, A, "Review of Errant Modernism". E-misférica 7:1 (2010). [galvez]
23. Castro, ME; Paul, , "Review of Errant Modernism". The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87:7 (2010): 894-895.
24. Gallo, R, "Mexican Photography: From the Daguerrotype to Digital Images". Hispanic Review 39:1 (Winter, 2010): 135-141.
25. Gabara, E, "Gestures, Practices, and Projects: [Latin] American Re-visions of Visual Culture and Performance Studies". E-misférica 7:1 (2010). [e-misferica-71]
26. Gabara, EL, "Fighting It Out: Being Naco in the Global Lucha Libre".  Mexico Issue26 (2010): 277-300. [html]
27. Carranza, LE, "Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil". Choice 47:1 (September, 2009).
28. O Toole, G, "The Errors of the Avant-Garde". The Latin American Review of Books  (July, 2009). [available here]
29. Fraser, B, "Review of Errant Modernism". Chasqui 38:2 (2009): 185-187. [retrieve.do]
30. Gabara, EL, ""Cannon and Camera": Photography and Colonialism in the Américas". ELN 44:2 (Winter, 2006): 45-64. [pdfviewer], [doi]
31. Gabara, EL, "Facing Brazil: The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime". CR: The New Centennial Review 4:2 (2004): 33-76. (Special issue entitled “Phosphorescent Memory: Visual Culture in the Americas”) [html], [doi]
32. Gabara, EL, "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 4:1 (2003): 201-207.
33. Gabara, EL, "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 61 (Summer, 2003): 113-115.
34. Gabara, EL, "Engendering Nation: Las bellas artes públicas and the Mexican Photo-essay, 1920-1940". Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 49 (Fall, 2001): 139-154.
35. Gabara, EL, "La ciudad loca: An Epistemological Plan". Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9:2 (2000): 119-35. [doi]
36. Gabara, E; Conlon, J, "Moving the Avant-Garde". Stanford Humanities Review 7:1 (June, 1999): vii-xii.
37. Santiago, S, "Two Strangers in Mexico". Stanford Humanities Review 7:1 (June, 1999): vii-xii. (Trans. with Joy Conlon)
38. Conlon, J, "Two Strangers in Mexico, by Silviano Santiago". Stanford Humanities Review 7:1 (1999): 79-87.