Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City
Oppressed Memories Unearthed
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Wirshing (Miami Dade College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 108-120 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x09341983 |
| OpenAlex | W1986837135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
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 history. The central trope of the novel is Elena, a gendered machine made responsible for integrating Argentina's past dissociations and making healing possible
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Denial · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Trope (literature) · History · Latin American Literature Analysis · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |