Jenckes Witnessing beyond the Human

Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6572-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenckes, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Messianicity beyond Militant Messianism: Apostrophe and Survival in Juan Gelman’s Poetry

2. Myopic Witnessing and the Intermittent Possibilities of Community in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas and Boca de lobo

3. Living and Writing in the Deserts of Modernity: Roberto Bolaño and the Alter-immunological Potential of Literature

4. Image and Alterity Beyond the Sepulture of the Human: Eugenio Dittborn’s Photocollages

Conclusion
Works Cited & Bibliography
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Jenckes is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of Reading Borges after Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History, also published by SUNY Press.