The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis

Nelly Richard

Published by Duke University Press 2004

The Insubordination of Signs

Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis

Nelly Richard
Edited by: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson
Translated by: Alice A. Nelson and Silvia R. Tandeciarz

In the series Latin America in Translation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385721

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Theorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship.

Author / Editor information

Nelly Richard is a renowned Latin American cultural studies theorist. Born in France and a graduate of the Sorbonne, Richard has lived in Chile since 1970. Among her many books are La estratificación de los márgenes and Políticas y estéticas de la memoria.

Alice A. Nelson is a Member of the Faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature.

Silvia R. Tandeciarz is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Exorcismos, a book of poetry.

Reviews

“At last, Nelly Richard’s work is available for English-language readers. A leading figure in the theater of Latin American critical debate, Nelly Richard has written with unorthodox brilliance about the Chilean transition to democracy, North-South cultural relations, and the value of aesthetic intervention to rethink the politics of difference.”—Francine Masiello, author of The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis

“The Chilean publication of this book and of its companion volume (Masculine/Feminine) confirmed and advanced Nelly Richard’s reputation as one of the foremost critical voices of the age. Richard’s brand of cultural critique, informed by a thorough attention to contemporary forms of subjectivity, is unmatched in the force of its theoretical articulation, its aesthetic sensitivity, and its sharp deployment of political strategies. Nelly Richard is today an essential reference for intellectual work in Latin America and beyond.”—Alberto Moreiras, author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies

"Nelly Richard mobilizes language into a trenchant critique of the political, academic, and market-oriented production of meaning that ushers in quiescent solutions to crises such as that of the postdictatorial reconciliation in Chile. Like the aesthetic projects she endorses, her work gives expression to the ‘diffuse zones of the unsaid.’ Richard wrestles the materiality of critique so that it maintains the inscriptions of antagonism, making it an indispensable instrument for an effective democratic culture. In The Insubordination of Signs, her words add muscle to the Benjaminian insight into rebellious memories that will not be quashed by ‘final and totalizing truths.’”—George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Author’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Translators’ Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Translators’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Note on This Translation Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
One. Ruptures, Memory, and Discontinuities (Homage to Walter Benjamin) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two. A Border Citation: Between Neo– and Post–Avant-Garde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Three. Destruction, Reconstruction, and Deconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Four. The Social Sciences: Front Lines and Points of Retreat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Five. Staging Democracy and the Politics of Difference Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Six. Conversation Germán Bravo, Martín Hopenhayn, Nelly Richard and Adriana Valdés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 149

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Published: March 23, 2004
ISBN: 9780822385721