The Space Of Disappearance
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Author | : Karen Elizabeth Bishop |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438478534 |
More than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic disappearance as a mechanism of state terror. In incisive close readings of texts by Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Karen Elizabeth Bishop explores how techniques of dissimulation, doubling, displacement, suspension, and embodiment come to serve both epistemological and ethical functions, grounding new forms of historical knowledge and a new narrative commons whose work continues into the twenty-first century. Their writing, Bishop argues, recalibrates our understanding of the rich and increasingly urgent reciprocities between fiction, history, and the demands of human rights. In the end, The Space of Disappearance asks us to reexamine in fiction what we think we cannot see; there, at the limits of the literary, disappearance appears as a vital agent of resistance, storytelling, and world-building.
Author | : Jordan H. Carver |
Publisher | : UR (Urban Research) |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781947198012 |
By investigating the sovereign claims of American power and the architectural spaces of secret prisons, Spaces of Disappearance reconstructs the network of black siteprisons developed in the early years of the so-called War on Terror. Jordan H. Carver compiles an original archive of architectural representations, redacted documents, and media reports to build a knowingly incomplete spatial history of post-9/11 extraordinary rendition. Framed by an introductory essay by architectural historian and theorist Felicity D. Scott that positions Carver's work withina longer history of military strategy andstate violence against "uncertain" warfare, this book skillfully presents the territorialand political logics of the top-secret CIA Detention and Interrogation Program. Spaces of Disappearance shows how architectures of con nement were designed to deny prisoners their human subjectivity and describes how the spectacle of government bureaucracyis used as a substitute for accountability.
Author | : M. Ackbar Abbas |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816629251 |
In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
Author | : Ibtisam Azem |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2019-07-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0815654839 |
What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.
Author | : Karen Elizabeth Bishop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Argentine fiction |
ISBN | : 9781438478524 |
"More than 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976-83, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic disappearance as a mechanism of state terror. In incisive close readings of texts by Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Karen Elizabeth Bishop looks at how techniques of dissimulation, doubling, displacement, suspension, and embodiment come to serve both epistemological and ethical functions, grounding new forms of historical knowledge and a new narrative commons whose work continues into the new millennium. Their writing, Bishop argues, recalibrates our understanding of the reciprocity between fiction and history. In the end, The Space of Disappearance asks us to look again at what we think we cannot see. For there, in fiction, at the limits of the literary, disappearance appears as a vital agent of resistance, storytelling, and worldbuilding"--
Author | : Estela Schindel |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781137380906 |
Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.
Author | : Annabel Kantaria |
Publisher | : Mira |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Missing persons |
ISBN | : 9781848454408 |
'Utterly compelling.' - Judy Finnigan In a family built on lies, who can you trust?
Author | : Alan N. Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science fiction television programs |
ISBN | : 9783930064168 |
Author | : Setha Low |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136081224 |
Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but instead centres of private commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. "The Politics of Public Space" extends the focus of current work on public space to include a consideration of the transnational - in the sense of moving people and transformations in the nation or state - to expand our definition of the 'public' and public space. Ultimately, public spaces are one of the last democratic forums for public dissent in a civil society. Without these significant central public spaces, individuals cannot directly participate in conflict resolution. "The Politics of Public Space" assembles a superb list of contributors to explore the important political dimensions of public space as a place where conflicts over cultural and political objectives become concrete.
Author | : David Levithan |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984848615 |
New York Times bestselling author David Levithan takes young readers on twisting journey through truth, reality, and fantasy and belief. Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he ran away. When the kids in school hear Aidan's story, they taunt him. But still Aidan clings to his story. And as he becomes more of an outcast, Lucas becomes more and more concerned. Being on Aidan's side would mean believing in the impossible. But how can you believe in the impossible when everything and everybody is telling you not to?