Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "dirty War"Duke University Press, 1997 - 309 pagina's In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor's focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation's "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, and performance theory, Taylor analyzes the political spectacles that comprised the war--concentration camps, torture, "disappearances"--as well as the rise of theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performative practices that attempted to resist and subvert the Argentine military. Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written, and staged--and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argues that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men--fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public--limiting its ability to respond. Those who challenged the dictatorship, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to progressive theater practitioners, found themselves in what Taylor describes as "bad scripts." Describing the images, myths, performances, and explanatory narratives that have informed Argentina's national drama, Disappearing Acts offers a telling analysis of the aesthetics of violence and the disappearance of civil society during Argentina's spectacle of terror. |
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... became the junta leaders after the coup - allowed Isabelita to keep power it was for two reasons . Under a constitutional govern- ment , the AAA ( paramilitary , anticommunist alliance ) could undertake the attack on the armed Left . In ...
... became the junta leaders after the coup - allowed Isabelita to keep power it was for two reasons . Under a constitutional govern- ment , the AAA ( paramilitary , anticommunist alliance ) could undertake the attack on the armed Left . In ...
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... became paramount . In- between - ness became the zone of deviancy in which homosexuals and indepen- dent women " naturally " fell and in which all enemies were cast . However , as in the military ranks , difference between males was ...
... became paramount . In- between - ness became the zone of deviancy in which homosexuals and indepen- dent women " naturally " fell and in which all enemies were cast . However , as in the military ranks , difference between males was ...
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... became increasingly alert to dangers around them . Their senses and protective instincts became more acute.22 They learned to " read " others's bodies , a new system of signs and codes , just as they exposed themselves to observation ...
... became increasingly alert to dangers around them . Their senses and protective instincts became more acute.22 They learned to " read " others's bodies , a new system of signs and codes , just as they exposed themselves to observation ...
Inhoudsopgave
Gendering the National Self | 29 |
Military Males Bad Women and a Dirty Dirty | 59 |
Performing | 91 |
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