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Memory and Autobiography - Explorations in the Limits (Paperback)
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Memory and Autobiography - Explorations in the Limits (Paperback)
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Loot Price R546
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This book by one of Latin America's leading cultural theorists
examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and
autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that
the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories - what
she calls the 'biographical space' - can be seen as symptomatic of
the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times.
Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective
dimension. The 'I' who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the
other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of
identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that
border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity
of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways
that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic
dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself.
Opening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch's own
poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina's last
dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled
borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how
artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated
to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only
how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but
also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy
for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being
in common.
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