Formal Considerations: Violence of/against Representing the Real
Seminar Organizer: Steve Buttes
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Email: sbutte2@uic.edu
Description: One of the most salient features of modern Southern Cone literature highlighted by critics is the way in which it seeks to represent and engage with the real. Whether it is addressing changes brought on by modernization, creating a Latin American subjectivity, rejecting traditions of state sponsored violence or addressing current realities of economic inequality, writers have created a tradition of confronting
changing social and economic realities through their literary representations. Formal and generic considerations, however, inevitably mediate, enable or prohibit an effective engagement with the reality these writers seek to represent. The present panel seeks to explore the way in which “the literary” questions, addresses and resists societal and economic changes while also questioning the limits of, and some cases the violence committed by, literature which attempts to represent and resist real social inequality.
Papers for this Topic
Stream B
Friday, April 20th, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Author: Fiorella Cotrina
Affiliation: USC
Email: cotrina@usc.edu
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Author: Eugenia Demuro
Affiliation: University of Sydney
Email: edem3374@usyd.edu.au
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Author: Mabel Vargas
Affiliation: Universidad de Chile
Email: mabel.vargas@gmail.com
Title: “Haciendo verdad un modelo literario y literaria una forma de verdad