The Untimely Present - Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning

"Avelar delivers a complex account of postdictatorship society, culture, thought, and literature in a lucidly clear prose and an eloquent style."-- George Yudice, New York University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Allegory and Mourning in Postdictatorship

1. Oedipus in Post-Auratic Times

2. The Genealogy of a Defeat

3. Countertraditions

4. Encrypting Restitution

5. Pastiche, Repetition, and the Angel

6. Overcodification of the Margins

7. Bildungsroman at A Standstill or the Weakening of Storytelling

8. The Unmourned Dead and the Promise of Restitution

Afterword: Postdictatorship and Postmodernity

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Idelber Avelar

Summary

Examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the 20th century's Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. This title argues that through their legacy of social trauma and their obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to practices of mourning that pervade the literature of the region.

Product details

• Authors: Avelar, Idelber Avelar, Idelber Avelar
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.1999
• EAN: 9780822324157
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2415-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American