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Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories, Dorfman has published in every major literary genre (novel, short story, poetry, drama); adopted literary forms including the picaresque, epic, noir, and theater of the absurd; and produced a vast amount of cultural criticism. His works are read as part of the Latin American literary canon, as examples of human rights literature, as meditations on exile and displacement, and within the tradition of bilingual, crosscultural, and ethnic writing. Yet, as Sophia A. McClennen shows, when Dorfmans extensive writings are considered as an integrated whole, a cohesive aesthetic emerges, an aesthetics of hope that foregrounds the arts as vital to our understanding of the world and our struggles to change it.To illuminate Dorfmans thematic concerns, McClennen chronicles the writers life, including his experiences working with Salvador Allende and his exile from Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and she provides a careful account of his literary and cultural influences. Tracing his literary career chronologically, McClennen interprets Dorfmans lessknown texts alongside his most wellknown works, which include How to Read Donald Duck, the pioneering critique of Western ideology and media culture coauthored with Armand Mattelart, and the awardwinning play Death and the Maiden. In addition, McClennen provides two valuable appendices: a chronology documenting important dates and events in Dorfmans life, and a full bibliography of his work in English and in Spanish.
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