Post-Authoritarian Cultures
Spain and Latin America's Southern Cone
Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Roberto Ampuero
This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.
Post-Authoritarian Cultures, available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
Consent and its Discontents
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Robert Ampuero
Part I. Contesting Power, Forging Commitment
Chapter 1
Democratic Culture and Transition in Chile
Jorge Edwards
Chapter 2
Writing from the Margins of the Chilean Miracle: Diamela Eltit and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Transition
Juliet Lynd
Chapter 3
The Riders Get Off the Horse: David Viñas and the Demise of the Authoritarian Argentine Military
Hans-Otto Dill
Chapter 4
A Journey through the Desert: Trends of Commitment in Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Luis Bagué Quílez
Part II. Interrogating Memories
Chapter 5
Testimonial Narratives in the Argentine Post-Dictatorship: Survivors, Witness, and the Reconstruction of the Past
Ana Forcinito
Chapter 6
Tejanos: The Uruguayan Transition Beyond
Gustavo A. Remedi
Chapter 7
Dancing with Destruction: Pop Music during the Spanish Transition
Antonio Méndez-Rubio
Chapter 8
Popular Filmic Narratives and the Spanish Transition
Germán Labrador Méndez
Part III. Looking In/Looking Out: Negotiating Identities
Chapter 9
Staged Ethnicity, Acted Modernity: Identity and Gender Representations in Spanish Visual Culture (1968–2005)
Estrella de Diego
Chapter 10
Creating a New Cohesive National Discourse in Spain after Franco
Carsten Humlebæk
Chapter 11
Intellectuals, Queer Culture, and Post-Military Argentina
David William Foster
Chapter 12
Some Notes on International Influences on Transition Processes in the Southern Cone
Heinrich Sassenfeld
Afterword
David William Foster