"Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope" is a critical introduction
to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer,
activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book
about the author in English and the first in any language to
address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently
challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories,
Dorfman has published in every major literary genre (novel, short
story, poetry, drama); adopted literary forms including the
picaresque, epic, noir, and theater of the absurd; and produced a
vast amount of cultural criticism. His works are read as part of
the Latin American literary canon, as examples of human rights
literature, as meditations on exile and displacement, and within
the tradition of bilingual, cross-cultural, and ethnic writing.
Yet, as Sophia A. McClennen shows, when Dorfman's extensive
writings are considered as an integrated whole, a cohesive
aesthetic emerges, an "aesthetics of hope" that foregrounds the
arts as vital to our understanding of the world and our struggles
to change it.
To illuminate Dorfman's thematic concerns, McClennen chronicles
the writer's life, including his experiences working with Salvador
Allende and his exile from Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto
Pinochet, and she provides a careful account of his literary and
cultural influences. Tracing his literary career chronologically,
McClennen interprets Dorfman's less-known texts alongside his most
well-known works, which include "How to Read Donald Duck," the
pioneering critique of Western ideology and media culture
co-authored with Armand Mattelart, and the award-winning play
"Death and the Maiden." In addition, McClennen provides two
valuable appendices: a chronology documenting important dates and
events in Dorfman's life, and a full bibliography of his work in
English and in Spanish.
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