Richard / Fish / Jameson The Insubordination of Signs

Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8572-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America in Translation

Theorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richard, Nelly

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Nelson, Alice A.

Tandeciarz, Silvia R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Note
ix

Translators’ Acknowledgments xi

Note on This Translation xvii

1. Ruptures, Memory, and Discontinuities (Homage to Walter Benjamin) 1

2. A Border Citation: Between Neo- and Post-Avant-Garde 23

3. Destruction, Reconsstruction, and Deconstruction 39

4. The Social Sciences: Front Lines and Points of Retreat 51

5. Staging Democracy and the Politics of Difference 65

6. Conversation: German Bravo, Martin Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard, and Adriana Valdes 77

Notes 103

Bibliography 113

Index 121

Über Autor(innen)

Nelly Richard is a renowned Latin American cultural studies theorist. Born in France and a graduate of the Sorbonne, Richard has lived in Chile since 1970. Among her many books are La estratificación de los márgenes and Políticas y estéticas de la memoria.

Alice A. Nelson is a Member of the Faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature.

Silvia R. Tandeciarz is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Exorcismos, a book of poetry.