Violence in Argentine Literature and Film (1989-2005)
Edited by Carolina Rocha and Elizabeth Montes Garcés
$34.95 CAD / $39.95 USD
286 pages
6 x 9 inches
978-1-55238-504-3 (Paperback)
978-1-55238-505-0 (Institutional PDF)
October 2010
About the Book
Why has violence been a predominant topic in contemporary Argentine film and literature? What conclusions can be drawn from the dissemination of violent images and narratives that depict violence in Argentina?
Applying a variety of critical approaches, the contributors explore violence in Argentine cultural productions as it relates to four broad themes: the body as site of physical violence, the legacies of Argentina’s authoritarian past, the collapse of the myth of the Argentine nation, and the current battles over how to define particular “social and geographical places” in the context of an increasingly violent society.
About the Editors
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.
With Contributions By: Fernando Reati, Myriam Osorio, Elizabeth Montes Garcés, Carolina Rocha, Gabriela Copertari, Beatriz Urraca, Ignacio López-Vicuña, Natalia Jackovkis, Zulema Moret, and Victoria Ruétalo
Praise for Violence in Argentine Literature and Film
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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Legacy of the Military Years
Torture and Abuse as a National Art Form: Gustavo Nielsen’s Auschwitz
Fernando Reati
Subjection and Injury in El vuelo de la reina by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Myriam Osorio
Desire and Violence in Ana Maria Shua’s La muerte como efecto secundario
Elizabeth Montes Garces
Violence and Representation: Postdictatorship Visions in Lita Stantic and Albertina Carri
Ana Forcinito
Paradise Lost
Barbaric Spectacles: Masculinities in Crisis in Popular Argentine Cinema in the 1990s
Carolina Rocha
Far From Heaven: On El cielito, by Maria Vicotria Menis
Gabriela Copertari
An Argentine Context: Civilization and Barbarism in El aura and El custodio
Beatriz Urraca
The Re-Signification of Social and Geographical Spaces
Postnational Boundaries in Bolivia
Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna
Contesting Spaces, Contesting DIscources in Bolivia by Adrian Caetano
Natalia Jackovkis
The Violence of the Site
Zulema Moret
Projecting Buenos Aires Back to the Future: Violence in Argentine Post-Dictatorship Science Fiction Film
Victoria Ruetalo
List of Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Legacy of the Military Years
Torture and Abuse as a National Art Form: Gustavo Nielsen’s Auschwitz
Fernando Reati
Subjection and Injury in El vuelo de la reina by Tomas Eloy Martinez
Myriam Osorio
Desire and Violence in Ana Maria Shua’s La muerte como efecto secundario
Elizabeth Montes Garces
Violence and Representation: Postdictatorship Visions in Lita Stantic and Albertina Carri
Ana Forcinito
Paradise Lost
Barbaric Spectacles: Masculinities in Crisis in Popular Argentine Cinema in the 1990s
Carolina Rocha
Far From Heaven: On El cielito, by Maria Vicotria Menis
Gabriela Copertari
An Argentine Context: Civilization and Barbarism in El aura and El custodio
Beatriz Urraca
The Re-Signification of Social and Geographical Spaces
Postnational Boundaries in Bolivia
Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna
Contesting Spaces, Contesting DIscources in Bolivia by Adrian Caetano
Natalia Jackovkis
The Violence of the Site
Zulema Moret
Projecting Buenos Aires Back to the Future: Violence in Argentine Post-Dictatorship Science Fiction Film
Victoria Ruetalo
List of Contributors
Index