The space of disappearance : a narrative commons in the ruins of Argentine state terror /

More than 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976-83, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bishop, Karen Elizabeth, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020].
Series:SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Space of Disappearance: Knowledge, Form, Rights
  • Mimesis by Other Means: The Aesthetics of Disappearance in Rodolfo Walsh's "Variaciones en rojo"
  • Double Exposure: The Hermeneutics of Catastrophe in Julio Cortázar's Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales
  • In Abeyance: Strategies of Suspension in Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de Perón
  • Errant Metonymy: The Embodiment of Disappearance in Tomás Eloy Martínez's Santa Evita
  • Conclusion.