Afterlives of confinement : spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America /

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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 post-dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Draper, Susana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
©2012
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Spanish American literature > History and criticism.
Prisons in literature.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Architecture and society > Southern Cone of South America.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Democracy > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Dictatorship > Social aspects > Southern Cone of South America.
Prisons > Remodeling for other use > Southern Cone of South America.
Littérature hispano-américaine > Histoire et critique.
Prisons dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
HISTORY > General.
Architecture and society.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects.
Democracy > Social aspects.
Intellectual life.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Spanish American literature.
Southern Cone of South America > Social conditions.
Southern Cone of South America > Intellectual life.
South America > Southern Cone of South America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Afterlife of Prisons
  • Prison-Malls : Architectures of Utopic Regeneration
  • Literary Afterlives of the Punta Carretas Prison : Tunneling Histories of Freedom
  • The Workforce and the Open Prison : Awakening from the Dream of the Chilean Miracle in Diamela Eltit's Mano de obra
  • Freedom, Democracy, and the Literary Uncanny in Roberto Bolano's Nocturno de Chile
  • Memorialistic Architectonics and Memory Marketing
  • It Goes without Seeing : Framing the Future Past of Violence in Postdictatorhip Film.

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