Cultural Residues - Chile in Transition

A complex portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that countrys most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts--the "residues" of a culture--to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochets seventeen-year military rule. Such residual areas reveal the flaws and lapses in Chiles transition from violent military dictatorship to electoral democracy. Nelly Richards analysis ranges from an exploration of false memories of the recent past--especially memories of violence--to a discussion of the university under neoliberalism; from debates about the use of the word "gender" to an examination of refractory texts and cultural activities such as Diamela Eltits "testimonio" of a schizophrenic vagabond, Eugenio Dittborns use of photography in art installations, and transvestite performances. In "Cultural Residues, each instance becomes a suggestive metaphor for understanding a rapidly modernizing Chile attempting to redemocratize its public life.

Product details

• Authors: Nelly Richard, Richard Nelly
• Assisted by: Theodore Quester (Translation), Alan West-Duran (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2004
• EAN: 9780816636419
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3641-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas; Cultural Studies of the Americ; Cultural Studies of the Americas; Cultural Studies of the Americ
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries