The Vanishing Frame - Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era Di Stefano Eugenio Claudio Paperback
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art--expecially the claim that political freedom can be…
Specifikacia The Vanishing Frame - Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era Di Stefano Eugenio Claudio Paperback
In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art--expecially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture.Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and