The Humanities in a World Upside-Down
Following the metaphor of “the world upside-down,” this essay collection highlights the importance of the humanities in addressing, along with the sciences, pressing challenges in today’s rapidly changing world. Crossing across a variety of disciplines, historical periods, and regions in the world, this volume represents a useful tool for humanities scholars and students exploring the key role of our disciplines in public debates about pressing issues, such as the refugee crisis, climate change denialism, environmental justice, racism, and the current worldwide crisis of democracy. It provides practical examples of how societies throughout the world have historically coped with unexpected and distressing changes in government, core values, axiomatic systems, assumptions, beliefs, ideology, or cultural constructions. The feeling of topsy-turvy consternation as a result of sudden, harrowing change, as is shown here, is not new; rather, it has simply evolved throughout time and space.
Ignacio López-Calvo is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than seventy articles and book chapters, as well as eight books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture, including Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru (2014); The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru (2013); Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (2007); Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963–2000 (2002); and Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973–Present (2001).
"Ignacio López-Calvo’s edition is a welcome contribution to the epistemology of an artistic concept that has existed in the collective imaginary since Classical Antiquity (Agosín ix–x). "
Luis López González, Vanderbilt University, Hispania, Volume 102, Number 2, June 2019, pp. 285-287
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