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Afterlives of Confinement : Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Illuminations SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978060
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Afterlives of ConfinementDDC classification:
  • 980
LOC classification:
  • F2217
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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