Description
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of sense work in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.
Trade ReviewAn extraordinary book…Masiello's book is a beautiful exploration of the long history of [the mighty power of managing one's own senses] in Latin America. * Iberoamericana *
Masiello's work is undoubtedly persuasive and engaging throughout, offering a refreshing method to pursue studies of politics and emotion. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *
[Masiello's] local scenes of sense work successfully make the case for a new approach to Latin American literature, art, and culture grounded in the aesthetics and politics of sense perception. They also serve as anchor points for one of Masiello’s subsidiary claims: that the work of the senses in culture is best understood when one turns way from universalist generalizations to focus on localized regimes of perception. In this way,
The Senses of Democracy extends an invitation to other theorists and scholars to continue mining the local and regional specificity of sense perception in Latin America, in contexts and time periods that are not covered in this book. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Sensing the Early Republic
- Chapter 2. Troubled by Gender: Technology and Perception in the Women’s Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 3. Collective Synesthesia: The 1920s Avant-Garde
- Chapter 4. A Politics of Perception against the State
- Chapter 5. By Way of a Conclusion: A Sense of the “Now”
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
