An analysis of selected texts that are viewed as cultural
responses to military tyranny, and especially to the military
dictatorship in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, this important
work studies the process of institutional redemocratization. Basing
his discussion on the principle that a literary work constitutes a
"rewriting" of the sociohistorical text, Foster examines a range of
essays and novels for the ways in which they structure an
interpretation of sociopolitical events.
Of particular concern is the ideological framing of the literary
work and the semiotic complications that arise in the rewriting of
a complex and often elusive historical past. Foster pays special
attention to the contributions of feminist writing and discusses
two dramatic texts by women. There are also references to other
dimensions of subalternity, especially within the framework of the
military's tight ideological array of "enemies of the fatherland"
whose cultural production suffered repression.
Foster discusses the works of such authors as Enrique Medina,
Marta Lynch, Griselda Gambaro, Ricardo Piglia, and Alejandra
Pizarnik, among others. By focusing on major literary texts
produced during a time of censorship and other forms of repression,
Foster provides a deeper understanding of Argentine culture.
Scholars and students of Latin American literature in general, and
humanists and social scientists specializing in Argentina in
particular, will welcome this insightful new contribution.
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