| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
SUNY Series, Literature ... in Theory |
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SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Messianicity beyond militant messianism: apostrophe and survival in Juan Gelman's poetry -- Myopic witnessing and the intermittent possibilities of community in Sergio Chejfec's Los planetas and Boca de lobo -- Living and writing in the deserts of modernity: Roberto Bolaño and the alter-immunological potential of literature -- Image and alterity beyond the sepulture of the human: Eugenio Dittborn's photocollages -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America. This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other "beyond the human," that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our unders |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 12/08/2021) |
| Subject |
Gelman, Juan, 1930-2014 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chejfec, Sergio -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dittborn, Eugenio -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 fast |
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Chejfec, Sergio fast |
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Dittborn, Eugenio fast |
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Gelman, Juan, 1930-2014 fast |
| Subject |
Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Other (Philosophy) in literature.
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Other (Philosophy) in art.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Other (Philosophy) in art
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Other (Philosophy) in literature
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Spanish American literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016050699 |
| ISBN |
9781438465722 |
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1438465726 |
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