University of Calgary Press

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.

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