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Afterlives of confinement : spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Draper, Susana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012]
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Southern Cone of South America > Intellectual life.
Southern Cone of South America > Social conditions.
Prisons > Remodeling for other use > Southern Cone of South America.
Dictatorship > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Democracy > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Architecture and society > Southern Cone of South America.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Prisons in literature.
Spanish American literature > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Afterlife of Prisons
  • Prison-Malls : Architectures of Utopic Regeneration
  • Literary Afterlives of the Punta Carretas Prison : Tunneling Histories of Freedom
  • The Workforce and the Open Prison : Awakening from the Dream of the Chilean Miracle in Diamela Eltit's Mano de obra
  • Freedom, Democracy, and the Literary Uncanny in Roberto Bolano's Nocturno de Chile
  • Memorialistic Architectonics and Memory Marketing
  • It Goes without Seeing : Framing the Future Past of Violence in Postdictatorhip Film.