Afterlives of confinement
Subtitle: spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America
By: Susana Draper
Series: Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780822962250
Subjects: Motion pictures; Prisons in literature; Democracy; Dictatorship; Prisons; Remodeling for other use; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Social conditions; Spanish American literature; Architecture and society; Consumption (Economics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Afterlife of Prisons; title: Prison-Malls : Architectures of Utopic Regeneration; title: Literary Afterlives of the Punta Carretas Prison : Tunneling Histories of Freedom; title: The Workforce and the Open Prison : Awakening from the Dream of the Chilean Miracle in Diamela Eltit's Mano de obra; title: Freedom, Democracy, and the Literary Uncanny in Roberto Bolano's Nocturno de Chile; title: Memorialistic Architectonics and Memory Marketing; title: It Goes without Seeing : Framing the Future Past of Violence in Postdictatorhip Film.