The vanishing frame : Latin American culture and theory in the postdictatorial era / Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Stefano, Eugenio Claudio, author.

Series:

Border Hispanisms.

Border Hispanisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Politics and literature--Latin America--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Dictatorship--Latin America--History--20th century.

Dictatorship.

Chilean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chilean literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiences of torture or disappearance, they also ignore the injustice of economic inequality and exploitation. By examining how artists such as Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra, and Fernando Botero not only reject an aesthetics of experience (and the politics it entails) but also insist on the work of art as a point of departure for an anticapitalist politics, this new reading of Latin American cultural production offers an alternative understanding of recent developments in Latin American aesthetics and politics that puts art at its center and the postdictatorship at its end.

Contents:

Introduction : freedom at the end of the postdictatorial era

pt. 1. Postdictatorial aesthetics

From revolution to human rights

Disability and redemocratization

Making neoliberal history

pt. 2. Toward a politics of the frame

The reappearance of the frame

Anti-intentionalism and the neoliberal left

Literary form now

Coda : the victim, the frame.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1620-5

OCLC:

1280942819