Witnessing beyond the Human
Subtitle: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: May 01, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781438465715
Description: "This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other 'beyond the human,' that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our understanding of history, community, and politics. Jenckes engages with the work of Jacques Derrida together with the intellectually rigorous field of Chilean aesthetic theory to explore issues related to the nature of testimony." -- Provided by the publisher.
Notes: Source title: Witnessing beyond the Human: Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina (SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory)