The Insubordination of Signs
Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 23. March 2004
149 pages
978-0-8223-8572-1 (ISBN)
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Theorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship.
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Nelly Richard
The Insubordination of Signs
Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
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Duke University Press
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The Insubordination of Signs
Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis
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03/2004
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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.
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.
Content
Author's Note
ix
Translators' Acknowledgments xi
Note on This Translation xvii
1. Ruptures, Memory, and Discontinuities (Homage to Walter Benjamin) 1
2. A Border Citation: Between Neo- and Post-Avant-Garde 23
3. Destruction, Reconsstruction, and Deconstruction 39
4. The Social Sciences: Front Lines and Points of Retreat 51
5. Staging Democracy and the Politics of Difference 65
6. Conversation: German Bravo, Martin Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard, and Adriana Valdes 77
Notes 103
Bibliography 113
Index 121
ix
Translators' Acknowledgments xi
Note on This Translation xvii
1. Ruptures, Memory, and Discontinuities (Homage to Walter Benjamin) 1
2. A Border Citation: Between Neo- and Post-Avant-Garde 23
3. Destruction, Reconsstruction, and Deconstruction 39
4. The Social Sciences: Front Lines and Points of Retreat 51
5. Staging Democracy and the Politics of Difference 65
6. Conversation: German Bravo, Martin Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard, and Adriana Valdes 77
Notes 103
Bibliography 113
Index 121
