Centrifugal city: centre and periphery in Ricardo Piglia’s La ciudad ausente

Autor: Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Literature and the peripheral city / Ameel, Lieven [edit.]; et al.
Literature and the Peripheral City ISBN: 9781349504701
Popis: Ricardo Piglia’s La ciudad ausente (“The Absent City”) was written in 1982 during Argentina’s military dictatorship but published only a decade later under the neoliberal government of Carlos Menem. The complexities of its plot and its experimental narrative structure have inspired an array of critical reactions. It has mostly been read as resistance writing: an attempt to revolt against the top-down narratives of Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–83). Importantly, however, resistance in the novel is not plot-driven — indeed the story only obliquely hints at government repression — but articulated through its narrative style: Writing in La ciudad ausente fulfils its maximum potential as a tool of resistance not in its role of uncovering the truths masked by censorship and repression, however important such a task is, but in its nature as something undecidable and impermanent. (Page 344)
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