| Witnessing Beyond the Human: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-Coup Chile and Argentina Contributor(s): Jenckes, Kate (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 143846570X ISBN-13: 9781438465708 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - History | Latin America - South America |
| Dewey: 860.998 |
| Series: Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other beyond the human, that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our understanding of history, community, and politics. Jenckes engages with the work of Jacques Derrida together with the intellectually rigorous field of Chilean aesthetic theory to explore issues related to the nature of testimony. |
