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Violence in Argentine Literature and Film
1989-2005
Edited by Carolina Rocha and Elizabeth Montes Garcés
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Book Presentation:
Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine literature and film?
Violence in Argentine Literature and Film draws on multiple critical approaches to explore how images of violence and narratives that depict violence are rooted decanted of authoritarianism and cultural upheaval. This collection interpret and analyses the ways violence communicates structural inequalities and lines of fissure in contemporary Argentina.
Examining depictions of violence in Argentine cultural production as multifaceted and complex, this collection explores the body as a site of physical violence, the legacies of authoritarianism, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and the battles over the definition of social and geographical place. It examines violence as a cause and result of the transformations undergone by the Argentine state, economy, and society.
About the authors:
Carolina Rocha is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas and specializes in contemporary Southern Cone literature and film. She is co-editor (with Hugo Hortiguera) of Argentinean Cultural Production during the Neoliberal Years. Her articles on Argentine film have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Ciberletras, and Bulletin of Spanish Studies. In the summer of 2007, she took part in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in Argentina. She is currently working on a manuscript that explores representations of masculinity in contemporary Argentine cinema.Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She is the author of El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago (1997) and of numerous articles published in prestigious journals such as Texto crítico, Letras Femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Anuario de Letras, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. She is editor of Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (University of Calgary Press). She is currently at work on a book on the relationship between body and text in the works of four Latin American female writers: Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa, and Laura Restrepo.
Press Reviews:
A useful document of contemporary criticism . . . this anthology deserves a space (for very different reasons) among required class bibliography, at the university library, and in both the graduate student’s and the specialist’s bookshelves.
—Verónica Garibotto, Revisita de Estudios Hispánicos
See the publisher website: University of Calgary Press
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