Witnessing beyond the Human : Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina /

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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 Che...

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Main Author: Jenckes, Kate, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gelman, Juan, > 1930-2014.
Dittborn, Eugenio.
Chejfec, Sergio.
Bolaño, Roberto, > 1953-2003.
Dittborn, Eugenio > Criticism and interpretation.
Bolaño, Roberto, > 1953-2003 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chejfec, Sergio > Criticism and interpretation.
Gelman, Juan, > 1930-2014 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spanish American literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in art.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Alterite dans l'art.
Alterite dans la litterature.
Litterature hispano-americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 pages).
ISBN:9781438465722

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