The New Latin American Fashion Reader

Herausgeber: Root, Regina A; Saunders, Stephanie N

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This entirely new collection of essays picks up from the 2005 Latin American Fashion Reader to explore ideas of rupture and repair in the past and present of Latin American fashion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350517455
• ISBN-10: 1350517453
• Artikelnr.: 73809546

Autorenporträt

Regina A. Root is Full Professor of Hispanic Studies at William & Mary, USA. An expert in participatory design and cultural production, she has authored or co-edited The Latin American Fashion Reader (Bloomsbury, 2005) Couture and Consensus (2010), and The Handbook of Fashion Studies (Bloomsbury, 2013), among others. She is co-editor, with Hazel Clark, of the Bloomsbury Fashion In Action book series. Stephanie N. Saunders is Associate Professor of Spanish at Lyon College (Arkansas), USA. She is the author of Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Reimagining Rupture and Repair I: Archival Considerations 1. Archives Matter: Dress Histories
Buildings
and the Digital Era (Rita Morais de Andrade
Universidade Federal do Goiás
Brazil) 2. Catholic Reliquary Lockets in the Colonial Americas: Foreign Objects with Native Presence (Alison Napier
Independent Scholar
USA) 3. Manila Shawls
Trading Routes and Global Encounters (Inés Corujo Martín
CUNY New York City College of Technology
USA) 4. Decolonizing Fashion
Assembling a Ruana History. Genealogies of a Resisting and Undesirable Garment (Edward Salazar Celis
University of California at Santa Cruz
USA) 5. The Name of the Clothes: Cuban Fashion Brands
1959-1989 (María A. Cabrera Arús
New York University
USA) II: Culture's Empowering Lens 6. Afro-Brazilian Styles: Dress
Race
and Coloniality in Nineteenth-Century Portraits (Alliny Cabral
Independent Scholar
Brazil) 7. Spotting Afro-Peruvian Women: A (Brief) Sartorial History in Polka Dots (Tamara Walker
Barnard College
USA) 8. "Are Feminists Elegant?": Shaping Gender and Literary Style Through Fashion (Alba Aragón
Bridgewater State University
USA) 9. Imagining through Images: Clothes and Family Memories in Afro-Brazilian Identity (Hanayrá Negreiros
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Brazil) III: Social Unrest and Resistance 10. Skirting the Colonial Gaze: Indigenous Reconfigurations of Feminine Identity (María Claudia Andre
Hope College
USA) 11. Fashion
Performance
and Re-existing in Trans Representation (Stephanie N. Saunders
Lyon College
USA) 12. The Politics of Clothed Bodies in Chile's Social Outburst (Pía Montalva
Independent Scholar
Chile) 13. Fashion in Distress: Cultural Fragments and Recycled Identities in Contemporary Argentina (Regina A. Root
William & Mary
USA) 14. From Low to High: Fashion
Reggaeton
and Latino Male Idols (William Cruz Bermeo
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Colombia) IV: Creative and Collective Agency 15. The Fashion of Face Masks in Mexico: Protest
Culture
and Idnetity during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Andrea A. Gaytán Cuesta
University of North Florida
USA) 16. Transnational Experiences in Fashion: The Work of Equihua
Barragán and Ricardo Seco (Tanya Meléndez-Escalante
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
USA) 17. The National Movement of Maya Weavers and Neocolonialism in Fashion Intellectual Property (Kedron Thomas
University of Delaware
USA) 18. Design as a Natural Healer (Maria Carolina Garcia
Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo
Brazil)