Post-authoritarian Culture

by Martin-Estudillo, Luis; Ampuero, Roberto

• ISBN13: 9780826516053
• ISBN10: 082651605X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr

Summary

This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

Table of Contents

Consent and Its Discontents+ Contesting Power, Forging Commitment

Jorge Edwards

Culture and Transition in Chile+

Juliet Lynd

Writing from the Margins of the Chilean Miracle: Diamela Eltit and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Transition+

Hans-Otto Dill

The Riders Get off the Horse: David Vi±as and the Demise of the Authoritarian Argentine Military+

Luis BaguT Quflez

A Journey through the Desert: Trends of Commitment in Contemporary Spanish Poetry+ Interrogating Memories

Ana Forcinito

Testimonial Narratives in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Survivors, Witnesses and the Reconstruction of the Past+

Gustavo Remedi

Tejanos: The Uruguayan Transition Beyond+

Antonio MTndez Rubio

Dancing with Destruction: Pop Music during the Spanish Transition+

Germßn Labrador

Popular Filmic Narratives and the Spanish Transition+ Looking In/Looking Out: Negotiating Identities

Estrella de Diego

Staged Ethnicity, Acted Modernity: Identity and Gender Representations in Spanish Visual Culture (1968-2005)+

Carsten Humlebµk

Creating a new cohesive national discourse in Spain after Franco+

David W. Foster

Intellectuals, Queer Culture, and Post-Military Argentina+

Heinrich Sassenfeld

Some notes on International Influences on Transition Processes in the Southern Cone+ Afterword Tom Lewi

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