Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits

ISBN-13: 9781509542178 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str.

Leonor Arfuch; Christina Macsweeney

Recenzje

"Leonor Arfuch's Memory and Autobiography is a brilliant reflection on autobiography not as a mere exercise in self-construction but as an act of witnessing the unforgettable and as a call to communal dialogue. An invaluable contribution by one of Latin America's most insightful cultural critics."Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities Emerita, New York University Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities Emerita, New York University

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Michael LazzaraPrologueI. A BeginningII. The Gaze as Autobiography: Time, place, objects1. Journeys: time, place2. Objects, memory3. Biographies / autobiographies4. RecapitulationsIII. Memory and ImageIV. Women Who Narrate: Autobiography and Traumatic Memories1. About narration2. Biography, memory3. Being and the limit4. (In)conclusionsV. Political Violence, Autobiography and Testimony1. The tone of the debate2. ColophonVI. The Threshold, the Frontier. Explorations in the Limits1. Language and transgression2. Art on the frontier3. Public art / critical artVII. The Name, the Number1. On the massacre2. The distance of the number3. Ethics and responsibility4. Naming5. Silence, namesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Leonor Arfuch is a cultural theorist and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires.