Afterlives of Confinement : Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America.
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- 9780822978060
- Prisons-Remodeling for other use-Southern Cone of South America
- Dictatorship-Social aspects-Southern Cone of South America
- Democracy-Social aspects-Southern Cone of South America
- Consumption (Economics)-Social aspects-Southern Cone of South America
- Architecture and society-Southern Cone of South America
- Motion pictures-Social aspects-Southern Cone of South America
- Prisons in literature
- Spanish American literature-Southern Cone of South America-History and criticism
- Southern Cone of South America-Intellectual life
- Southern Cone of South America-Social conditions
- 980
- F2217
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Afterlife of Prisons -- 1. Prison-Malls: Architectures of Utopic Regeneration -- 2. Literary Afterlives of the Punta Carretas Prison: Tunneling Histories of Freedom -- 3. The Workforce and the Open Prison: Awakening from the Dream of the Chilean Miracle in Diamela Eltit's Mano de obra -- 4. Freedom, Democracy, and the Literary Uncanny in Roberto Bolaño's Nocturno de Chile -- 5. Memorialistic Architectonics and Memory Marketing -- 6. It Goes without Seeing: Framing the Future Past of Violence in Postdictatorship Film -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the "opening" of prisons to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in postdictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, she examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures.
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