| Description |
xxxiii, 251 p. ; 23 cm. |
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Latin American and Caribbean series, 1498-2366 ; no. 8 |
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Latin American and Caribbean series ; no. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The legacy of the military years. Torture and abuse as a national art form : Gustavo Nielsen's Auschwitz / Fernando Reati ; Subjection and injury in El vuelo de la reina by Tomas Eloy Martinez / Myriam Osorio ; Desire and violence in Ana Maria Shua's La muerte como efecto secundario / Elizabeth Montes Garces ; Violence and representation : postdictatorship visions in Lita Stantic and Albertina Carri / Ana Forcinito -- Paradise lost. Barbaric spectacles : masculinities in crisis in popular Argentine cinema of the 1990s / Carolina Rocha ; Far from heaven : on El cielito, by Maria Victoria Menis / Gabriela Copertari ; An Argentine context : civilization and barbarism in El aura and El custodio / Beatriz Urraca -- The re-signification of social and geographical spaces. Postnational boundaries in Bolivia / Ignacio Lopez-Vicuņa ; Contesting spaces, contesting discourses in Bolivia, by Adrian Caetano / Natalia Jackovkis ; The violence of the site / Zulema Moret ; Projecting Buenos Aires back to the future : violence in Argentine post-dictatorship science fiction film / Victoria Ruetalo. |
| Summary |
"Applying a variety of critical approaches, the contributors explore violence in Argentine cultural productions as it relates to four broad themes: the body as site of physical violence, the legacies of Argentina's authoritarian past, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and the current battles over how to define particular "social and geographical places" in the context of an increasingly violent society"--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Argentina.
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Politics and literature -- Argentina.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Argentina.
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Literature and society -- Argentina.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Argentina.
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Rocha, Carolina.
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Montes Garces, Elizabeth, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9781552385043 (pbk.) |
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1552385043 (pbk.) |
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