Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive
Lighting the Nitrate of the 1973 Coup
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louise Purbrick (0000-0001-8603-6810, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h7040115 |
| OpenAlex | W2901559881 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines a mass produced postcard image as a picture of conflict. It considers the postcard as a Benjaminian ‘prismatic fringe’ through which an archive can be viewed, wherein documents of the British trade in Chilean nitrate are juxtaposed with those of General Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. The archive itself is explored as a site of loss and its postcard, an unvarying idealisation, as a particularly problematic but powerful image that renders conflict out of sight
Art · Geography · Nitrate · Optics · Physics · Sight · Visual arts · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Ecology
The Politics of Memory in Chile
Reckoning with Pinochet
Memories and silences of a segregated city
Thinking beyond the boundaries
The British in the Atacama Desert
Regarding the pain of others
The Enganche in the Chilean Nitrate Sector, 1880-1930
Between Memory and History
Harold Blakemore (1930-1991)
Nitrate Crises, Combinations, and the Chilean Government in the Nitrate Age
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |