The space of disappearance : a narrative commons in the ruins of Argentine state terror / Karen Elizabeth Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Karen Elizabeth, 1972- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argentine fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Argentine fiction.

Disappeared persons in literature.

Political persecution in literature.

Literature and society--Argentina.

Literature and society.

Argentina.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 244 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2020]

Summary:

"More than 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976-83, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic disappearance as a mechanism of state terror. In incisive close readings of texts by Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Karen Elizabeth Bishop looks at how techniques of dissimulation, doubling, displacement, suspension, and embodiment come to serve both epistemological and ethical functions, grounding new forms of historical knowledge and a new narrative commons whose work continues into the new millennium. Their writing, Bishop argues, recalibrates our understanding of the reciprocity between fiction and history. In the end, The Space of Disappearance asks us to look again at what we think we cannot see. For there, in fiction, at the limits of the literary, disappearance appears as a vital agent of resistance, storytelling, and worldbuilding"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Space of Disappearance: Knowledge, Form, Rights

Mimesis by Other Means: The Aesthetics of Disappearance in Rodolfo Walsh's "Variaciones en rojo"

Double Exposure: The Hermeneutics of Catastrophe in Julio Cortázar's Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales

In Abeyance: Strategies of Suspension in Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de Perón

Errant Metonymy: The Embodiment of Disappearance in Tomás Eloy Martínez's Santa Evita

Conclusion.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bishop, Karen Elizabeth, The space of disappearance

ISBN:

9781438478517

1438478518

9781438478524

1438478526

OCLC:

1129100509