Esther Gabara
Biographic Data
| ID | 215144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Gabara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabara |
| SIGNATURE | GABARA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Esther Gabara. Review of "The Political Body
Doing unpayable debt
This response to Denise Ferreira da Silva's Unpayable Debt (2022) takes seriously the author's self-description as a scholar and artist, and so considers the study within a genealogy of contemporary experiments with the book form in the Americas. Unpayable Debt calls for a reader who will assemble its sequence of moments and texts into an accounting of the debt that Western epistemologies, disciplines, and habits of reading owe to the people and …
The Bermuda Triangle of Madrid’s Museums
The Bermuda triangle of the title refers to the magical space between three Madrid museums— El Prado, the Museum of the Americas, and the National Museum of Anthropology—in which the coloniality of Spanish society disappears, in the contemporary moment as much as in the historical narrative. This article asks: where is Latin America— specifically, Latin American art—in Spain? It sets out the discursive maneuvers that have obscured that colonialit…
Modernism and the avant-garde in Latin America
Fictions of Emancipation
Research Article| March 01 2013 Fictions of Emancipation: Collaborations With and Against the Law Esther Gabara Esther Gabara Duke University [email protected] Esther Gabara is the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. Her book, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2008), elaborated a theory of Latin American modernist e…
“Cannon and Camera”—Photography and Colonialism in the Américas
Research Article| September 01 2006 “Cannon and Camera”—Photography and Colonialism in the Américas Esther Gabara Esther Gabara Duke University [email protected] Esther Gabara is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. She has published articles on Latin American photography and literature in CR: The New Centennial Review and the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature; Photograph…
Facing Brazil
Facing Brazil:The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime1 Esther Gabara (bio) The 1998 São Paulo Bienal, organized by Paulo Herkenhoff, asked the international curators of the different portions of the exhibition to respond in some way to Brazilian literary modernist Oswald de Andrade's famous "Anthropophagist Manifesto" (1928). In this fantastic text, Oswald proposes that the Brazilian national body is made up of the cannibalization of E…
La ciudad loca
2000). La ciudad loca : An Epistemological Plan. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 119-135
Facing Brazil
Facing Brazil:The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime1 Esther Gabara (bio) The 1998 São Paulo Bienal, organized by Paulo Herkenhoff, asked the international curators of the different portions of the exhibition to respond in some way to Brazilian literary modernist Oswald de Andrade's famous "Anthropophagist Manifesto" (1928). In this fantastic text, Oswald proposes that the Brazilian national body is made up of the cannibalization of E…
La ciudad loca
2000). La ciudad loca : An Epistemological Plan. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 119-135
Facing Brazil
Facing Brazil:The Problem of Portraiture and a Modernist Sublime1 Esther Gabara (bio) The 1998 São Paulo Bienal, organized by Paulo Herkenhoff, asked the international curators of the different portions of the exhibition to respond in some way to Brazilian literary modernist Oswald de Andrade's famous "Anthropophagist Manifesto" (1928). In this fantastic text, Oswald proposes that the Brazilian national body is made up of the cannibalization of E…
“Cannon and Camera”—Photography and Colonialism in the Américas
Research Article| September 01 2006 “Cannon and Camera”—Photography and Colonialism in the Américas Esther Gabara Esther Gabara Duke University [email protected] Esther Gabara is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. She has published articles on Latin American photography and literature in CR: The New Centennial Review and the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature; Photograph…
Fictions of Emancipation
Research Article| March 01 2013 Fictions of Emancipation: Collaborations With and Against the Law Esther Gabara Esther Gabara Duke University [email protected] Esther Gabara is the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and art, art history, and visual studies at Duke University. Her book, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (Duke University Press, 2008), elaborated a theory of Latin American modernist e…
Modernism and the avant-garde in Latin America
The Bermuda Triangle of Madrid’s Museums
The Bermuda triangle of the title refers to the magical space between three Madrid museums— El Prado, the Museum of the Americas, and the National Museum of Anthropology—in which the coloniality of Spanish society disappears, in the contemporary moment as much as in the historical narrative. This article asks: where is Latin America— specifically, Latin American art—in Spain? It sets out the discursive maneuvers that have obscured that colonialit…
Doing unpayable debt
This response to Denise Ferreira da Silva's Unpayable Debt (2022) takes seriously the author's self-description as a scholar and artist, and so considers the study within a genealogy of contemporary experiments with the book form in the Americas. Unpayable Debt calls for a reader who will assemble its sequence of moments and texts into an accounting of the debt that Western epistemologies, disciplines, and habits of reading owe to the people and …
"Esther Gabara. Review of "The Political Body
Art (8 works) · Art history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works)