The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2004
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- Title
- The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
- Author
- Richard, Nelly
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822333392
- ISBN 13
- 9780822333395
- Item weight
- 300 grams
- Series
- Book 15 of 33: Latin America in Translation
In The Insubordination of Signs Richard theorizes the cultural reactions—particularly within the realms of visual arts, literature, and the social sciences—to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. She reflects on the role of memory in the historical shadow of the military regime and on the strategies offered by marginal discourses for critiquing institutional systems of power. She considers the importance of Walter Benjamin for the theoretical self-understanding of the Latin American intellectual left, and she offers revisionary interpretations of the Chilean neo-avantgarde in terms of its relationships with the traditional left and postmodernism. Exploring the gap between Chile’s new left social sciences and its “new scene” aesthetic and critical practices, Richard discusses how, with the return of democracy, the energies that had set in motion the democratizing process seemed to exhaust themselves as cultural debate was attenuated in order to reduce any risk of a return to authoritarianism.
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About the Author
Nelly Richard is a renowned Latin American cultural studies theorist. Born in France and a graduate of the Sorbonne, Richard has lived in Chile since 1970. Among her many books are La estratificación de los márgenes and Políticas y estéticas de la memoria.
Alice A. Nelson is a Member of the Faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature.
Silvia R. Tandeciarz is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Exorcismos, a book of poetry.
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