Author: Gisela Norat
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This collection of essays, written in clear critical discourse, is a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book or books and are not familiar with the author's entire production."--BOOK JACKET.
Marginalities
Author: Gisela Norat
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This collection of essays, written in clear critical discourse, is a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book or books and are not familiar with the author's entire production."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This collection of essays, written in clear critical discourse, is a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book or books and are not familiar with the author's entire production."--BOOK JACKET.
Custody of the Eyes
Author: Diamela Eltit
Publisher: Lumen Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A victimized woman victimizes by identical means: alienating surveillance, of her son and herself.
Publisher: Lumen Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A victimized woman victimizes by identical means: alienating surveillance, of her son and herself.
Diamela Eltit
Author: Mary Green
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Thirty-five years after her death, this book reassesses the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) in the light of recent publications of her 'complete' poetry and prose, diaries, and previously unavailable archive material.The essays in this volume explore Pizarnik's work from new angles: they examine her production as a literary critic, revealing her intense identificatory strategies as a reader, and the impact of such activities upon her own creative process. They also weigh up the influence of her ambiguous attitudes towards sexuality on her poetic personae, as well as the ways in which her concern with sex inspires her experimentation with humorous prose. New approaches are taken to key texts and themes: in the case of the much-studied work, 'La condesa sangrienta', through a detailed philosophical reading involving comparisons with Kafka, and, in the case of the theme of the split subject, through the lens of translation.By broadening the scope of Pizarnik studies, this book will act as a catalyst for further research into the work of this compelling poet.
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661554
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Thirty-five years after her death, this book reassesses the Argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) in the light of recent publications of her 'complete' poetry and prose, diaries, and previously unavailable archive material.The essays in this volume explore Pizarnik's work from new angles: they examine her production as a literary critic, revealing her intense identificatory strategies as a reader, and the impact of such activities upon her own creative process. They also weigh up the influence of her ambiguous attitudes towards sexuality on her poetic personae, as well as the ways in which her concern with sex inspires her experimentation with humorous prose. New approaches are taken to key texts and themes: in the case of the much-studied work, 'La condesa sangrienta', through a detailed philosophical reading involving comparisons with Kafka, and, in the case of the theme of the split subject, through the lens of translation.By broadening the scope of Pizarnik studies, this book will act as a catalyst for further research into the work of this compelling poet.
E. Luminata
Author: Diamela Eltit
Publisher: Lumen Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Chile's prize-winning novel of rebellious defiance in revolutionary prose--a feminist triumph of Joycean stature.
Publisher: Lumen Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Chile's prize-winning novel of rebellious defiance in revolutionary prose--a feminist triumph of Joycean stature.
Sacred Cow
Author: Diamela Eltit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Ana spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt.'As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Ana spent one perfect night with Manuel. She told me about it quite unexpectedly, knowing in advance how hopelessly caught up I would become in her reminiscences. She went into a detailed description of her expensive, provocative outfit, and I could visualise her walking forward, her legs deliberately restricted by her shiny black dress. Ana confessed that she was so driven by her depraved desire that night that she consciously sought to focus people's looks on the violent rippling of her thighs, barely disguised beneath the shiny black material. I watched her smiling and it hurt.'As the forces of political repression encircle Santiago, the capital of Chile, the narrator raises the question of the relationship between her sexual cravings and fantasies and the domination of women in Chilean society. Sacred Cow is an intense, erotic unveiling of the human psyche.
The Fourth World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One out of every six human beings lives in a very hidden world - the world of slums. Filmed on five continents, 'The Fourth World' takes viewers deep inside this hidden world, a world the United Nations says could triple in the next 30 years.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
One out of every six human beings lives in a very hidden world - the world of slums. Filmed on five continents, 'The Fourth World' takes viewers deep inside this hidden world, a world the United Nations says could triple in the next 30 years.
Diamela Eltit
Author: Michael J. Lazzara
Publisher: Latin America Research Commons
ISBN: 1951634349
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Diamela Eltit’s literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of restriction and violence, Eltit boldly cultivated a radical, insurrectional poetics aimed at questioning the very underpinnings of authoritarian power and discourse. While Eltit’s novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays. Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit’s essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics.
Publisher: Latin America Research Commons
ISBN: 1951634349
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Diamela Eltit’s literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of restriction and violence, Eltit boldly cultivated a radical, insurrectional poetics aimed at questioning the very underpinnings of authoritarian power and discourse. While Eltit’s novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays. Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit’s essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics.
Holy Terrors
Author: Diana Taylor
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332404
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
DIVTranslations of texts by important Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332404
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
DIVTranslations of texts by important Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work./div
Afterlives of Confinement
Author: Susana Draper
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822978067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the "opening" of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, Draper examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures. The afterlife of prisons became an important tool in the "forgetting" of past politics, while also serving as a reminder to citizens of the liberties they now enjoyed. In Draper's analysis, these symbols led the populace to believe they had attained freedom, although they had only witnessed the veneer of democracy—in the ability to vote and consume. In selected literary works by Roberto Bola–o, Eleuterio Fernandez Huidoboro, and Diamela Eltit and films by Alejandro Agresti and Marco Bechis, Draper finds further evidence of the emptiness and melancholy of underachieved goals in the afterlife of dictatorships. The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much of these texts. Draper's study of the manipulation of culture and consumerism under the guise of democracy will have powerful implications not only for Latin Americanists but also for those studying neoliberal transformations globally.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822978067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the "opening" of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, Draper examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures. The afterlife of prisons became an important tool in the "forgetting" of past politics, while also serving as a reminder to citizens of the liberties they now enjoyed. In Draper's analysis, these symbols led the populace to believe they had attained freedom, although they had only witnessed the veneer of democracy—in the ability to vote and consume. In selected literary works by Roberto Bola–o, Eleuterio Fernandez Huidoboro, and Diamela Eltit and films by Alejandro Agresti and Marco Bechis, Draper finds further evidence of the emptiness and melancholy of underachieved goals in the afterlife of dictatorships. The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much of these texts. Draper's study of the manipulation of culture and consumerism under the guise of democracy will have powerful implications not only for Latin Americanists but also for those studying neoliberal transformations globally.
Soul's Infarct
Author: Diamela Eltit
Publisher: Helen Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780930829674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Indigent, incarcerated, insane--loving couples portrayed from Chile's most extreme asylum in photographs and protean text.
Publisher: Helen Lane Editions
ISBN: 9780930829674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Indigent, incarcerated, insane--loving couples portrayed from Chile's most extreme asylum in photographs and protean text.