Witnessing beyond the human : addressing the alterity of the other in post-coup Chile and Argentina /

Jenckes, Kate, 1969-

Witnessing beyond the human : addressing the alterity of the other in post-coup Chile and Argentina / Alterity of the other in post-coup Chile and Argentina by Kate Jenckes. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Suny series, literature ... in theory .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Messianicity beyond militant messianism: apostrophe and survival in Juan Gelman's poetry -- Myopic witnessing and the intermittent possibilities of community in Sergio Chejfec's Los planetas and Boca de lobo -- Living and writing in the deserts of modernity: Roberto Bolaño and the alter-immunological potential of literature -- Image and alterity beyond the sepulture of the human: Eugenio Dittborn's photocollages -- Conclusion.



9781438465722

2016050699


Chejfec, Sergio--Criticism and interpretation.
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003 --Criticism and interpretation.
Dittborn, Eugenio--Criticism and interpretation.


Spanish American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in art.


Electronic Books.

PQ7081 / .W586 2017