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Author:

Wirshing, Irene, 1970-

Title:

National trauma in postdictatorship Latin American literature : Chile and Argentina / Irene Wirshing.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

145 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Psychic trauma in literature
Collective memory in literature.
Authoritarianism in literature
Political persecution in literature.
Chile--In literature.
Argentina--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Wounds of humanity in Diamela Eltit's The sacred cow and The fourth world -- Ricardo Piglia's The absent city: oppressed memories unearthed -- Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden: testimonial theater of the "paranoid" -- Griselda Gambaro's Ant©Ưgona Furiosa: heiress of shame and bride to freedom.

Series:

Latin America ; v. 17

ISBN:

1433105551 (alk. paper)
9781433105555 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)435711003

LCCN:

2009034696

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)