Silvana Mandolessi – författare

This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearances, focusing on the specificities that this practice acquires in the context of the counterinsurgency struggle of the 1970s and the so-called ‘war on drugs’. The third section situates the issue within the framework of human rights law by examining the conceptual and legal aspects of disappearances. The final chapters explore the social movement of the relatives of the disappeared, showing how their search for disappeared loved ones involves bodily and affective experiences as well as knowledge production. The volume thus aims to further our understanding of the crisis of disappearances in Mexico without, however, losing sight of the historic origins of the phenomenon.

Este volumen presenta un análisis de la relación entre violencia y afecto en la cultura latinoamericana. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, las contribuciones que lo integran abordan un amplio espectro de producciones culturales, incluyendo literatura, cine, fotografías, instalaciones y performances. El volumen ofrece un panorama de la trayectoria y el impacto del giro afectivo en la región, interrogando la especificidad que adquiere la teoría afectiva en América Latina, al tiempo que explora las mutaciones del concepto de violencia en el panorama contemporáneo. El potencial político de los afectos feos, la efectividad afectiva de las obras de arte para movilizar al espectador, la exploración de posiciones afectivas incómodas o el afecto como forma desterritorializada en el cine contemporáneo son algunas de las intersecciones entre afectos y violencias que el libro indaga.

El escritor polaco Witold Gombrowicz ocupa hoy un lugar paradójico en la literatura argentina. Este libro indaga ese lugar a través de la categoría de lo abyecto, una categoría psicoanalítica, política y estética que ilumina tanto la práctica literaria de Gombrowicz como la recepción ambivalente que sufrió en Argentina. Inspirándose en los escritos teóricos de Julia Kristeva, e integrando las elaboraciones teóricas más recientes, este libro evalúa el ‘legado argentino’ del escritor polaco, y demuestra, al mismo tiempo, el gran potencial interpretativo de lo abyecto como categoría de análisis literario.