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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Pagina 86
... representation of the " lucid " death to keep it glorious . The female bodies , once again , become excess - they fall out of the picture so that the representation of death and sacrifice will continue its magic of affirming community ...
... representation of the " lucid " death to keep it glorious . The female bodies , once again , become excess - they fall out of the picture so that the representation of death and sacrifice will continue its magic of affirming community ...
Pagina 172
... representation reflects the continuing effects of victimization . It enables Partnoy to deal with the past and present effects of her ordeal and is , thus , inextricable from her status as survivor . She is a reappeared person , a ...
... representation reflects the continuing effects of victimization . It enables Partnoy to deal with the past and present effects of her ordeal and is , thus , inextricable from her status as survivor . She is a reappeared person , a ...
Pagina 186
... representation to women as she defined and constituted them . Thus , as Butler notes , women are not simply a preexisting category of political subjects in need of representation : women are the product of political representation ...
... representation to women as she defined and constituted them . Thus , as Butler notes , women are not simply a preexisting category of political subjects in need of representation : women are the product of political representation ...
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Gendering the National Self | 29 |
Military Males Bad Women and a Dirty Dirty | 59 |
Performing | 91 |
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