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Memory and Autobiography - Explorations in the Limits (Paperback): Arfuch

Memory and Autobiography - Explorations in the Limits (Paperback)

Arfuch

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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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Imprint: Polity Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2020
Authors: Arfuch
Dimensions: 214 x 141 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4218-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General
LSN: 1-5095-4218-3
Barcode: 9781509542185

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