Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America (Illuminations, 74),Used

Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America (Illuminations, 74),Used

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During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the opening of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in postdictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, Draper examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures.The afterlife of prisons became an important tool in the forgetting of past politics, while also serving as a reminder to citizens of the liberties they now enjoyed. In Drapers analysis, these symbols led the populace to believe they had attained freedom, although they had only witnessed the veneer of democracyin the ability to vote and consume.In selected literary works by Roberto Bolao, Eleuterio Fernndez Huidoboro, and Diamela Eltit and films by Alejandro Agresti and Marco Bechis, Draper finds further evidence of the emptiness and melancholy of underachieved goals in the afterlife of dictatorships. The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a nowhidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much of these texts.Drapers study of the manipulation of culture and consumerism under the guise of democracy will have powerful implications not only for Latin Americanists but also for those studying neoliberal transformations globally.

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