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    Literatura Periférica: Challenging São Paulo’s Cultural Segregation
    (The International Journal of the Constructed Environment, 2016) Paula, Leonora Souza
    In this article, I discuss how the works produced by authors identified with the twenty-first-century literary movement known as Literatura Periférica respond to and intervene in São Paulo’s excluding pattern of culture distribution. Having lived in the city’s peripheries themselves, these authors have been writing about life on the margins and centering their works on traditionally excluded groups. This work discusses the ways in which Literatura Periférica renders visible a social vision of the world in which the periphery is understood and represented not as a stigmatized culturally impoverished space, but as a legitimate site of enunciation for representing local lived experiences. While recognizing the periphery as a legitimate site of cultural production, I demonstrate how the collaborative peripheral identity contributes to the construction of a new imaginary for the symbolic and material space occupied by the socially excluded and racialized peripheries.
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    Muerte y transfiguración de la ciudad: territorios urbanos y marginalidad
    (la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2012) Heffes, Gisela
    Este artículo examina un conjunto de narrativas y films latinoamericanos de las últimas dos décadas, los cuales articulan la creciente desigualdad social, política y económica en América Latina, en conjunción con las prácticas y experiencias culturales, desde una perspectiva urbana. Al tomar como eje la configuración del espacio de la ciudad latinoamericana, el artículo explora cómo estas narrativas reformulan nociones clásicas del diseño urbano con el objeto de presentar, en su lugar, un espacio distintivo, con códigos específicos, los que operan como formas alternativas de sustraerse al poder de la globalización y las políticas del neoliberalismo.