Thea Pitman Knihy

The book delves into the role of Indigenous curatorial agency within the context of Indigenous contemporary art and its interaction with the broader art world. It examines the potential for Indigenous perspectives to influence curatorial practices and challenge traditional narratives, highlighting the importance of cultural identity and representation in contemporary art. Through this exploration, it seeks to redefine the dynamics between Indigenous artists and the established art community.

Exploring the intersection of Latin American culture and digital innovation, this volume examines how online cultural products like hypermedia fictions, net.art, and performance art reshape traditional narratives. It highlights the evolution of blogs, films, and web-based projects, emphasizing their role in transforming or continuing Latin American discourses. The book addresses the growing significance of digital culture in a region that has been relatively under-explored in this context, offering fresh insights into its cultural dynamics.

This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre’s imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares.