Siesta Nightmares And Cannibalistic Daydreams
Desexilioand Raúl Ruiz'sA TV Dante
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Nate Nichols (0000-0001-8344-0965, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-239 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2022.2089977 |
| OpenAlex | W4289522411 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article adds to the critical discourses surrounding Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) and his films of return after exile, or desexilio, by analysing his portion of A TV Dante (1992). In this Ruizian transmedia experimentation of Dante's Inferno, there is a radical de- and re-territorialisation of the text: on the one hand, from text to film, and, on the other, spatially and temporally by transposing the text onto images of contemporary Chile. This paper reads the film, then, as a Ruizian re-encounter with Chile after exile during the early years of the period transition to democracy and looks to the implications of these disjunctions and displacements - both in the broader thematic vicissitudes and in more specific contradictions between sound and image - when re-worked in terms of spatial (Santiago de Chile) and temporal (post-dictatorship) conditions. In doing so, it turns to the Brazilian concept of anthropophagy as an analytical framework and tool. As such, this paper argues that approaching the film through the lens of anthropophagy not only helps us to read the discursive strategies deployed in the film, but also highlights how cannibalism works as both a formal structuring feature and as part of the film's content
Art · Art history · Cartography · Democracy · Dictatorship · Feature film · Geography · Literature · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
The Politics of Exile in Latin America
Subversive Pleasures
The Untimely Present
Democracy and Poverty in Chile
Chile and the Neoliberal Trap
Mysteries of Lisbon and Intermedial History-Telling
Journeys of Desexilio
Everything we are seeing we have already seen
A Nation of Enemies
From Dante's Inferno to Dante's Peak The Influence of Dante on Film
Can the subaltern eat? Anthropophagic culture as a Brazilian lens on post-colonial theory
The Memory of the National and the National as Memory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |