{"product_id":"memory-and-autobiography-explorations-at-the-limits-paperback-softback-9781509542185","title":"Memory and Autobiography; Explorations at the Limits (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509542185","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMemory and Autobiography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExplorations at the Limits\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeonor Arfuch (Author), Christina MacSweeney (Translated by), Michael Lazzara (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509542185, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.261 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Leonor Arfuch's \u003ci\u003eMemory and Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant reflection on autobiography not as a mere exercise in self-construction but as an act of witnessing the unforgettable and as a call to communal dialogue. An invaluable contribution by one of Latin America's most insightful cultural critics.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities Emerita, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she calls the ‘biographical space’ – can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The ‘I’ who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch’s own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina’s last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Michael Lazzara\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e I. A Beginning\u003cbr\u003e II. The Gaze as Autobiography: Time, place, objects \u003cbr\u003e 1. Journeys: time, place\u003cbr\u003e 2. Objects, memory\u003cbr\u003e 3. Biographies \/ autobiographies\u003cbr\u003e 4. Recapitulations\u003cbr\u003e III. Memory and Image\u003cbr\u003e IV. Women Who Narrate: Autobiography and Traumatic Memories\u003cbr\u003e 1. About narration\u003cbr\u003e 2. Biography, memory\u003cbr\u003e 3. Being and the limit\u003cbr\u003e 4. (In)conclusions\u003cbr\u003e V. Political Violence, Autobiography and Testimony\u003cbr\u003e 1. The tone of the debate\u003cbr\u003e 2. Colophon\u003cbr\u003e VI. The Threshold, the Frontier. Explorations in the Limits\u003cbr\u003e 1. Language and transgression\u003cbr\u003e 2. Art on the frontier\u003cbr\u003e 3. Public art \/ critical art\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Name, the Number\u003cbr\u003e 1. On the massacre\u003cbr\u003e 2. The distance of the number\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ethics and responsibility\u003cbr\u003e 4. Naming \u003cbr\u003e 5. Silence, names\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Language: reference \u0026amp; general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Language: reference \u0026amp; general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Language:%20reference%20\u0026amp;%20general%20%5BCB%5D%22\"\u003eCB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475087257880,"sku":"9781509542185","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509542185.jpg?v=1785804479","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/memory-and-autobiography-explorations-at-the-limits-paperback-softback-9781509542185","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}