The New Latin American Fashion Reader by Root, Regina A.; Saunders, Stephanie N.;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

The New Latin American Fashion Reader invites readers to engage with key questions and in contemporary debates around decolonization, sustainability, and agency, in the context of Latin American fashion production and design.

With its publication in 2005, The Latin American Fashion Reader established a more diverse and inclusive approach to fashion, bringing about explorations of historical foundations, altered cultural landscapes, and the potential to understand more fully consumption trends. Since then, Latin American fashion's presence on the international stage has grown amidst an urgent need for decolonization, increased representation and sustainability, at moments of political upheaval.

Taking up the story where The Latin American Fashion Reader left off, this multi-authored book allows contributors from the Americas and beyond, many of whom have encountered challenges to their craft and work, to share experiences, ideas, and knowledge.

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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 Goii??1?2s, 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 (Ini??1?2s Corujo Marti??1?2n, 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 (Mari??1?2a A. Cabrera Ari??1?2s, 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 Aragi??1?2n, Bridgewater State University, USA)
9. Imagining through Images: Clothes and Family Memories in Afro-Brazilian Identity (Hanayri??1?2 Negreiros, Museu de Arte de Si??1?2o Paulo, Brazil)

III: Social Unrest and Resistance
10. Skirting the Colonial Gaze: Indigenous Reconfigurations of Feminine Identity (Mari??1?2a 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 (Pi??1?2a 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. Gayti??1?2n Cuesta, University of North Florida, USA)
16. Transnational Experiences in Fashion: The Work of Equihua, Barragi??1?2n and Ricardo Seco (Tanya Meli??1?2ndez-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, Universiti??1?2rio Belas Artes de Si??1?2o Paulo, Brazil)