Title The insubordination of signs : political change, cultural transformation, and poetics of the crisis / Nelly Richard ; Alice A. Nelson and Silvia R. Tandeciarz, translators

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 129 pages) Series Post-contemporary interventions Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução Post-contemporary interventions. Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Contents Author's note -- Translators' acknowledgments -- Translators' preface -- Note on this translation -- One. Ruptures, memory, and discontinuities (homage to Walter Benjamin) -- Two. A border citation : Between neo- and post-avant-garde -- Three. Destruction, reconstruction, and deconstruction -- Four. The social sciences : Front lines and points of retreat -- Five. Staging democracy and the politics of difference -- Six. Conversation : Germán Bravo, Martín Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard and Adriana Valdés -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Theorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship "Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country's transition to democracy. Well known as the founder and director of the influential journal Revista de crítica cultural, based in Santiago, Richard has been central to the dissemination throughout Latin America of work by key contemporary thinkers, including Néstor García Canclini, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, and Diamela Eltit. Her own writing provides rigorous considerations of Latin American identity, postmodernism, gender, neoliberalism, and strategies of political and cultural resistance. In 'The Insubordination of Signs' Richard theorizes the cultural reactions -- particularly within the realms of visual arts, literature, and the social sciences -- to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. She reflects on the role of memory in the historical shadow of the military regime and on the strategies offered by marginal discourses for critiquing institutional systems of power. She considers the importance of Walter Benjamin for the theoretical self-understanding of the Latin American intellectual left, and she offers revisionary interpretations of the Chilean neo-avantgarde in terms of its relationships with the traditional left and postmodernism. Exploring the gap between Chile's new left social sciences and its "new scene" aesthetic and critical practices, Richard discusses how, with the return of democracy, the energies that had set in motion the democratizing process seemed to exhaust themselves as cultural debate was attenuated in order to reduce any risk of a return to authoritarianism."--description from publisher web site Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Politics and culture -- Chile Politics and literature -- Chile Authoritarianism -- Psychological aspects Adjustment (Psychology) -- Chile -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Adjustment (Psychology) Authoritarianism -- Psychological aspects Civilization Politics and government Politics and culture Politics and literature SUBJECT Chile -- Civilization -- 20th century Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001578 Chile -- Politics and government -- 1988- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001579 Subject Chile Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Nelson, Alice A., 1964- translator. Tandeciarz, Silvia Roxana, translator. ISBN 9780822385721 0822385724

Other Titles Insubordinación de los signos. English

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