Irene Wirshing
Biographic Data
| ID | 1691575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Wirshing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Wirshing |
| SIGNATURE | WIRSHING I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami Dade College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City
The Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City reflects upon the retrieval of the past as a prerequisite for healing from national trauma. If postdictatorship countries are to implement a transition to democracy, their citizens must confront the past. The denial of national trauma perpetuates tyranny. Taken together, the many fragmented stories in Piglia's novel can be viewed as a metaphor for the process of retrieving a repressed histor…
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Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City
The Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City reflects upon the retrieval of the past as a prerequisite for healing from national trauma. If postdictatorship countries are to implement a transition to democracy, their citizens must confront the past. The denial of national trauma perpetuates tyranny. Taken together, the many fragmented stories in Piglia's novel can be viewed as a metaphor for the process of retrieving a repressed histor…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Denial (1 works) · History (1 works) · Latin American Literature Analysis (1 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Literature (1 works)