Insubordination of Signs - Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis

Informationen zum Autor Nelly Richard is a renowned Latin American cultural studies theorist. Born in France and a graduate of the Sorbonne, Richard has lived in Chile since 1970. Among her many books are La estratificaciÓn de los mÁrgenes and PolÍticas y estÉticas de la memoria. Alice A. Nelson is a Member of the Faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature. Silvia R. Tandeciarz is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Exorcismos, a book of poetry. Klappentext Theorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship. Zusammenfassung Theorizes the cultural reactions - particularly within the realms of visual arts! literature! and the social sciences - to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. This title reflects on the role of memory during the military regime! particularly in the context of its human rights abuses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author’s Note >Translators’ Acknowledgments xi Note on This Translation xvii 1. Ruptures, Memory, and Discontinuities (Homage to Walter Benjamin) 1 2. A Border Citation: Between Neo- and Post-Avant-Garde 23 3. Destruction, Reconsstruction, and Deconstruction 39 4. The Social Sciences: Front Lines and Points of Retreat 51 5. Staging Democracy and the Politics of Difference 65 6. Conversation: German Bravo, Martin Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard, and Adriana Valdes 77 Notes 103 Bibliography 113 Index 121

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nelly Richard, Richard, Nelly Richard, Nelly/ Nelson Richard
• Mitarbeit: Alice A Nelson (Übersetzung), Alice A. Nelson (Übersetzung), Silvia R Tandeciarz (Übersetzung), Silvia R. Tandeciarz (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.03.2004
• EAN: 9780822333272
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3327-2
• Seiten: 152
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Chile, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Soziale und ethische Themen