| Cultural Residues: Chile in Transition Volume 18 Contributor(s): Richard, Nelly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816636427 ISBN-13: 9780816636426 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: A complex portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country's most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts--the "residues" of a culture--to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet's seventeen-year military rule. Such residual areas reveal the flaws and lapses in Chile's transition from violent military dictatorship to electoral democracy. Nelly Richard's analysis ranges from an exploration of false memories of the recent past--especially memories of violence--to a discussion of the university under neoliberalism; from debates about the use of the word "gender" to an examination of refractory texts and cultural activities such as Diamela Eltit's "testimonio" of a schizophrenic vagabond, Eugenio Dittborn's use of photography in art installations, and transvestite performances. In "Cultural Residues, each instance becomes a suggestive metaphor for understanding a rapidly modernizing Chile attempting to redemocratize its public life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies |
| Dewey: 983.064 |
| LCCN: 2004012753 |
| Series: Cultural Studies of the Americas (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.88" W x 8.96" (0.68 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Through the dimensions of aesthetics, culture, and politics, Richard (cultural studies, U. Arcis, Santiago, Chile) analyzes certain zones of tension and conflict in Chile resulting from the democratic transition process. He finds the zones to be more or less residual, pointing to unstable formations of symbolic and cultural deposits and sedimentati |