Cultural residues : Chile in transition / Nelly Richard ; translated by Alan West-Duran and Theodore Quester ; foreword by Jean Franco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richard, Nelly.

Contributor:

West, Alan, 1953-

Quester, Theodore.

Series:

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 18.

Cultural studies of the Americas ; v. 18

Standardized Title:

Residuos y metáforas. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chile--Intellectual life--20th century.

Chile.

Chile--History--1988-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country's most incisive cultural critics, Cultural Residues uses memoirs, photographs, art, and novels-the "residues" of a culture-to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet's seventeen-year military rule. According to Nelly Richard, such residual areas reveal the flaws in Chile's transition from violent dictatorship to electoral democracy.

Contents:

Introduction

Cites/sites of violence

Torments and obscenities

Neobaroque debris

The congealment of the pose and urban velocities

Dismantlings of identity, perversion of codes

The academic citation and its others

Antidiscipline, transdiscipline, and the redisciplining of knowledge

The graphic model of an advertising identity

Turbulence, anachronism, and degenerations

Gender, values, and difference(s)

Take the sky by assault : political transgression and flight of metaphors

For love of art : critical ruptures and flights of fancy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-9189-4

OCLC:

614925442