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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817303303321

Autore

Draper Susana

Titolo

Afterlives of confinement : spatial transitions in postdictatorship Latin America / / Susana Draper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-8229-7806-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Illuminations : Cultural Formations of the Americas

Disciplina

980

Soggetti

Prisons - Southern Cone of South America

Dictatorship - Social aspects - Southern Cone of South America

Democracy - Social aspects - Southern Cone of South America

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - Southern Cone of South America

Architecture and society - Southern Cone of South America

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Southern Cone of South America

Prisons in literature

Spanish American literature - Southern Cone of South America - History and criticism

Southern Cone of South America Intellectual life

Southern Cone of South America Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Afterlife of Prisons -- Prison-Malls : Architectures of Utopic Regeneration -- Literary Afterlives of the Punta Carretas Prison : Tunneling Histories of Freedom -- The Workforce and the Open Prison : Awakening from the Dream of the Chilean Miracle in Diamela Eltit's Mano de obra -- Freedom, Democracy, and the Literary Uncanny in Roberto Bolano's Nocturno de Chile -- Memorialistic Architectonics and Memory Marketing -- It Goes without Seeing : Framing the Future Past of Violence in Postdictatorhip Film.