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 139
... Writing Torture and Torture as Writing Much like the corpse , empty of its soul , representations of death refer to an absence of full meaning by signalling the presence of meaning elsewhere ... Writing Torture and Torture as Writing.
... Writing Torture and Torture as Writing Much like the corpse , empty of its soul , representations of death refer to an absence of full meaning by signalling the presence of meaning elsewhere ... Writing Torture and Torture as Writing.
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... writing ( in the traditional sense ) and writing on the body . The metaphors - the individual body , the social body , the body politic - literally coalesce in torture . All receive the impact of the instrument of inscription ; all take ...
... writing ( in the traditional sense ) and writing on the body . The metaphors - the individual body , the social body , the body politic - literally coalesce in torture . All receive the impact of the instrument of inscription ; all take ...
Pagina 158
... writing about the experiences that she and her fellow prisoners went through as desaparecidos in the concentration camp known as the Escuelita ( Little School ) because she felt she had to . As one of the approx- imately 1,500 of the ...
... writing about the experiences that she and her fellow prisoners went through as desaparecidos in the concentration camp known as the Escuelita ( Little School ) because she felt she had to . As one of the approx- imately 1,500 of the ...
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Gendering the National Self | 29 |
Military Males Bad Women and a Dirty Dirty | 59 |
Performing | 91 |
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