Memory and Autobiography: Explorations at the Limits (Critical South)

This book by one of Latin America's leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.\nArfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories - what she calls the 'biographical space' - can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The 'I' who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself.\nOpening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch's own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina's last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.

Literature & Fiction

Arfuch, Leonor

History & Criticism

Polity

This book by one of Latin America's leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.&nbsp; Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories - what she calls the 'biographical space' - can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The 'I' who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself.&nbsp; Opening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch's own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina's last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.

La entrevista, una invención dialógica (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ediciones Paidós

Investigación sobre una de las formas autobiográficas predominantes, tanto en los medios como en la ciencias sociales: la entrevista, que no sólo alimenta la exaltación narcisista o la intrusión a la privacidad, sino que reconfigura los mecanismos de identidad. Según Leonor Arfuch, el espacio biográfico ha realizado un valioso aporte para el pensamiento y análisis contemporáneo de las ciencias sociales.

El espacio biográfico. Dilemas de la subjetividad contemporánea (SOCIOLOGiA, 2) (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Una vida narrada convoca tanto la escucha como la identificación: qué podemos compartir de una experiencia que, en su singularidad, replica la eterna travesía del vivir. Este libro indaga en ese afán de apresar el registro fugaz de la existencia que podríamos llamar la tentación biográfica, tal como se da en la biografía, a diferencia de otros géneros afines, pero también en las formas innovadoras de la autoficción, cuando están llamadas a traer al presente memorias traumáticas. Múltiples voces se dan cita en este texto, animando una "conversación grupal", desde la reflexión sobre el “giro afectivo”, que parece primar como un aire de época, hasta la delicadeza que exige la escucha ante quienes se tornan hacia una infancia herida –la infancia en dictadura– a través de diversas formas de expresión. A ello se suman los acentos del arte en su vertiente crítica, atenta a la precariedad de nuestro tiempo. Voces –experiencias– que trazan una cartografía sensible para la comprensión del hecho histórico. En este libro los conceptos teóricos se enlazan con la agudeza del análisis en una perspectiva transdisciplinaria donde la biografía trae al ruedo a clásicos y contemporáneos, la autoficción anida en voces de hijas e hijos de desaparecidos o exiliados, el arte va más allá de las fronteras y propone un diálogo común. Un actualizado recorrido por el pensamiento de su autora en el cual la inquietud memorial infringe cánones y se plasma a su vez en la escritura, donde se anudan crítica y poética.

La vida narrada: Memoria, subjetividad y política (Spanish Edition)

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