After Human Rights

Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6416-2
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas

Fernando J. Rosenberg explores Latin American artisticproduction concerned with the possibility of justice after the establishment, rise, and ebb of the human rights narrative around the turn of the last century. Prior to this, key literary and artistic projects articulated Latin American modernity by attemptingto address and supplement the state’s inability to embody and enact justice.

Rosenberg argues that since the topics of emancipation, identity, and revolution no longer define social concerns, Latin American artistic production is now situated at a point where thelogic and conditions of marketization intersect with the notion of rights through which subjects define themselves politically. Rosenberg grounds his study in discussions of literature, film, and visual art (novels of political refoundations, fictions of truth and reconciliation, visual arts based on cases of disappearance, films about police violence, artistic collaborations with police forces, and judicialdocumentaries). In doing so, he provides a highly original examination of the paradoxical demands on current artistic works to produce both capital value and foster human dignity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosenberg, Fernando

Über Autor(innen)

Fernando J. Rosenberg is associate professor in the department of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America.