National trauma in postdictatorship Latin American literature
Subtitle: Chile and Argentina
By: Irene Wirshing.
Series: Latin America, interdisciplinary studies -- v. 17
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433105555
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Collective memory in literature; Authoritarianism in literature; Political persecution in literature; Chile -- In literature; Argentina -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wounds of humanity in Diamela Eltit's The sacred cow and The fourth world; title: Ricardo Piglia's The absent city: oppressed, Memories unearthed; title: Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden: testimonial, Theater of the paranoid; title: Griselda Gambaro's Antígona Furiosa: Heiress of shame and Bride to freedom.