Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits

ISBN-13: 9781509542185 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

Acknowledgements Introduction by Michael Lazzara Prologue I. A Beginning II. The Gaze as Autobiography: Time, place, objects 1. Journeys: time, place 2. Objects, memory 3. Biographies / autobiographies 4. Recapitulations III. Memory and Image IV. Women Who Narrate: Autobiography and Traumatic Memories 1. About narration 2. Biography, memory 3. Being and the limit 4. (In)conclusions V. Political Violence, Autobiography and Testimony 1. The tone of the debate 2. Colophon VI. The Threshold, the Frontier. Explorations in the Limits 1. Language and transgression 2. Art on the frontier 3. Public art / critical art VII. The Name, the Number 1. On the massacre 2. The distance of the number 3. Ethics and responsibility 4. Naming 5. Silence, names Bibliography Index

O autorze

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