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Witnessing beyond the Human

Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina

By: Kate Jenckes

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Witnessing beyond the Human

Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina

By: Kate Jenckes

Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America. This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other beyond the human, that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our understanding of history, community, and politics. Jenckes engages with the work of Jacques Derrida together with the intellectually rigorous field of Chilean aesthetic theory to explore issues related to the nature of testimony.

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1438465718

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Witnessing beyond the Human

Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina

By: Kate Jenckes

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Witnessing beyond the Human

Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina

By: Kate Jenckes

This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represent life, death, and the relation between self and other "beyond the human," that is beyond the sense that we can know and represent ourselves and others, with powerful implications for our understanding of history, community, and politics. Jenckes engages with the work of Jacques Derrida together with the intellectually rigorous field of Chilean aesthetic theory to explore issues related to the nature of testimony.

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State University of New York Press

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1438465726

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Reading Borges after Benjamin

Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

By: Kate Jenckes

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Reading Borges after Benjamin

Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History

By: Kate Jenckes

This book explores the relationship between time, life, and history in the work of Jorge Luis Borges and examines his work in relation to his contemporary, Walter Benjamin. By focusing on texts from the margins of the Borges canon—including the early poems on Buenos Aires, his biography of Argentina's minstrel poet Evaristo Carriego, the stories and translations from A Universal History of Infamy, as well as some of his renowned stories and essays—Kate Jenckes argues that Borges's writing performs an allegorical representation of history. Interspersed among the readings of Borges are careful and original readings of some of Benjamin's finest essays on the relationship between life, language, and history. Reading Borges in relationship to Benjamin draws out ethical and political implications from Borges's works that have been largely overlooked by his critics.

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0791480569

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Witnessing beyond the Human

Witnessing beyond the Human

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