Arteletra

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dc.alternateIdentifier9781612496665
dc.alternateIdentifier9781612496542
dc.alternateIdentifier9781557538994
dc.alternateIdentifier9780822964384
dc.alternateIdentifier9781612496535
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dc.creatorBartles, Jason A.
dc.date2024-11-05T16:20:35Z
dc.date2024-11-05T16:20:35Z
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T12:57:27Z
dc.descriptionArteletrA analyzes the Sixties in Latin America in order to revisit the core claim of literary and cultural studies to political relevancy in the contemporary world: the task of making visible the invisible. Though visibility can secure rights for the disenfranchised, it also risks subjecting them to the biopolitical and capitalist arrangements of space. What is at stake in this book is a series of aesthetic and ethical tools for engaging in politics—defined here as the potential to disagree—without first passing through visibility. These tools cohere around a practice Bartles calls “the politics of going unnoticed,” which he derives from an archive of three noteworthy, though under-appreciated, authors who wrote during the Sixties: Calvert Casey (1924–69), Juan Filloy (1894–2000), and Armonía Somers (1914–94). For the first time ever, Casey, Filloy, and Somers are put in dialogue with one another to further demonstrate the unique contributions of Latin American writers to contemporary debates about the crossroads of literatures and politics. What unites them is their shared investment in stories about those who go unnoticed. As a practice, going unnoticed creates space and opportunities for queer, rural, and female subjects, among others, to step back from unjust institutions. As a political discourse, going unnoticed deactivates the binary structures of biopolitics (e.g., visible/invisible, pure/filthy, friend/enemy) that divide humans from one another in the service of power and economic inequality. Though the politics of going unnoticed was ignored during the Sixties for its apparent individualism, these three writers work through alternatives to the politics of visibility that has animated political discourse on the left for the last half-century. More than a self-interested critique, going unnoticed opens new possibilities for engaging in the messy business of politics while imagining and creating better communities.
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dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94217
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/13228
dc.imprintPurdue University Press
dc.languageeng
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages254
dc.placepublicationWest Lafayette
dc.publisherPurdue University Press
dc.publisherPurdue University Press
dc.relationPurdue Studies in Romance Literatures
dc.relationisPublishedBy3600efb5-b3a3-419f-9e4f-7a6094096815
dc.relationisbn9781612496665
dc.relationisbn9781612496542
dc.relationisbn9781557538994
dc.relationisbn9780822964384
dc.relationisbn9781612496535
dc.relationisbn9780822965664
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dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.seriesnumber81
dc.source9781612496559.pdf
dc.source9781612496542_EPUB.epub
dc.subject1960s
dc.subjectCalvert Casey
dc.subjectJuan Filloy
dc.subjectArmonía Somers
dc.subjectqueer
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectLGBTQ
dc.subjectbiopolitics
dc.subjectrural
dc.subjectpolitical left
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory
dc.titleArteletra

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