Fabricio Tocco
Biographic Data
| ID | 331624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabricio Tocco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabricio |
| FAMILY NAME | Tocco |
| SIGNATURE | TOCCO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2848-3887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Place, Affect, and Belonging
This article will offer a reading on how crime fiction re-signifies stereotypes about Indigenous peoples and places that had often been constructed through popular genres such as crime fiction. I examine two novels from different yet relatable contexts: Scream Black Murder (1995) and Hot Line (2002). Published in English and Spanish, these texts were written by First Nations authors: Kamilaroi writer and academic Philip McLaren and Chilean noveli…
Specters in the Paraguayan Woods
This article examines Hugo Giménez’s Matar a un muerto (2019), set in 1978 during the Paraguayan and Argentine dictatorships. I contextualize the film in post-dictatorial cinema. My close reading strays from memory studies, often privileged in studies of Southern Cone post-dictatorial cultural productions. Instead, I delve into how the film engages with the political thriller, a genre originated in North America becoming more and more practiced i…
A language not of this world
The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”, the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call “symbolic unintelligibility”, using it to respond to literary tradition and to the polit…
A language not of this world
The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”, the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call “symbolic unintelligibility”, using it to respond to literary tradition and to the polit…
A language not of this world
The following article deals with the intersections of the linguistic, the literary, and the political in Roberto Bolaño’s “The Part about the Crimes”, the fourth chapter of his novel 2666. Building on Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato, and American scholar David Kurnick, I propose that Bolaño engages with what I call “symbolic unintelligibility”, using it to respond to literary tradition and to the polit…
Specters in the Paraguayan Woods
This article examines Hugo Giménez’s Matar a un muerto (2019), set in 1978 during the Paraguayan and Argentine dictatorships. I contextualize the film in post-dictatorial cinema. My close reading strays from memory studies, often privileged in studies of Southern Cone post-dictatorial cultural productions. Instead, I delve into how the film engages with the political thriller, a genre originated in North America becoming more and more practiced i…
Place, Affect, and Belonging
This article will offer a reading on how crime fiction re-signifies stereotypes about Indigenous peoples and places that had often been constructed through popular genres such as crime fiction. I examine two novels from different yet relatable contexts: Scream Black Murder (1995) and Hot Line (2002). Published in English and Spanish, these texts were written by First Nations authors: Kamilaroi writer and academic Philip McLaren and Chilean noveli…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Cinema History and Criticism (1 works)