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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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020].
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| Series: | SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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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.