Nanci Buiza
Biographic Data
| ID | 150713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nanci Buiza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nanci |
| FAMILY NAME | Buiza |
| SIGNATURE | BUIZA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2645-9891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing in the Aftermath of War
This article examines the challenges faced by Central American writers during a period of profound cultural, political, and economic change, as Central America transitioned from an era of civil war and revolutionary struggle to one of peace, democracy, and neoliberal state-building, spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s. At the core of this change was a pervasive sense of disenchantment, understood not merely as disillusionment with the failures o…
Crossing Mexico on La Bestia
This article examines two documentaries about the recent wave of Central American migrants who have attempted to reach the US by crossing Mexico atop the freight trains known as la Bestia. These films — Which Way Home (2009 Which Way Home. 2009. Directed by R. Cammisa. New York: Docurama. [Google Scholar]) by Rebecca Cammisa, and Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013 Who Is Dayani Cristal? 2013. Directed by M. Silver. New York: Kino Lorber. [Google Schola…
The Ethical Question in Postwar Central America and the Mutilated Good in Rodrigo Rey Rosa'sEl Cojo Bueno
This article examines how the novel El cojo bueno (1996) by Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa posits an ethics that reconstellates the motifs and assumptions that have informed the revolutionary and transition-to-peace efforts of Central America. Through a careful reading of the text, I demonstrate how the novel pushes against the limits of the neoliberal ‘culture of peace’ and gives expression to an ethics that is attuned to the complex sociopo…
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Crossing Mexico on La Bestia
This article examines two documentaries about the recent wave of Central American migrants who have attempted to reach the US by crossing Mexico atop the freight trains known as la Bestia. These films — Which Way Home (2009 Which Way Home. 2009. Directed by R. Cammisa. New York: Docurama. [Google Scholar]) by Rebecca Cammisa, and Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013 Who Is Dayani Cristal? 2013. Directed by M. Silver. New York: Kino Lorber. [Google Schola…
The Ethical Question in Postwar Central America and the Mutilated Good in Rodrigo Rey Rosa'sEl Cojo Bueno
This article examines how the novel El cojo bueno (1996) by Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa posits an ethics that reconstellates the motifs and assumptions that have informed the revolutionary and transition-to-peace efforts of Central America. Through a careful reading of the text, I demonstrate how the novel pushes against the limits of the neoliberal ‘culture of peace’ and gives expression to an ethics that is attuned to the complex sociopo…
Writing in the Aftermath of War
This article examines the challenges faced by Central American writers during a period of profound cultural, political, and economic change, as Central America transitioned from an era of civil war and revolutionary struggle to one of peace, democracy, and neoliberal state-building, spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s. At the core of this change was a pervasive sense of disenchantment, understood not merely as disillusionment with the failures o…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work)