Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / Andrew C. Rajca.
2018
F2849.2 .R327 2018eb
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Title
Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / Andrew C. Rajca.
Author
ISBN
9780810136380 (electronic bk.)
0810136384 (electronic bk.)
9780810136366 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0810136368 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780810136373 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810136376 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810136384 (electronic bk.)
9780810136366 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0810136368 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780810136373 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0810136376 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Published
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 254 pages)
Call Number
F2849.2 .R327 2018eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1018102009
Summary
In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result. Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries. Dissensual Subjects offers much to those concerned with numerous interlocking fields: memory, human rights, political subjectivity, aesthetics, cultural studies, visual culture, Southern Cone studies, postdictatorship studies, and sites of memory.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture
The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo
Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo
Aesthetics, politics, and the subjects of memory and human rights : the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires
Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship.
Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture
The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo
Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo
Aesthetics, politics, and the subjects of memory and human rights : the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires
Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Critical insurgencies.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Rajca, Andrew C. Dissensual subjects. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018
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