About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816636427

ISBN-139780816636426

eBay Product ID (ePID)30771641

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameCultural Residues : Chile in Transition

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Latin America / South America

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

AuthorNelly. Richard

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

SeriesCultural Studies of the Americas Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2004-012753

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number18

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal983.06/4

SynopsisA 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 re-democratize its public life., A complex portraial of postdictorial 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., 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

LC Classification NumberF3100.R52313 2004