{"product_id":"the-space-of-disappearance-a-narrative-commons-in-the-ruins-of-argentine-state-terror-paperback","title":"The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKaren Elizabeth Bishop\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than thirty thousand people were forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship that governed Argentina from 1976 to 1983, leaving behind a cultural landscape fractured by absence, denial, impunity, and gaps in knowledge. This book is about how these absences assume narrative form in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction and the formal strategies and structures authors have crafted to respond to the country's use of systematic disappearance as a mechanism of state terror. In incisive close readings of texts by Rodolfo Walsh, Julio Cortázar, and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Karen Elizabeth Bishop explores how techniques of dissimulation, doubling, displacement, suspension, and embodiment come to serve both epistemological and ethical functions, grounding new forms of historical knowledge and a new narrative commons whose work continues into the twenty-first century. Their writing, Bishop argues, recalibrates our understanding of the rich and increasingly urgent reciprocities between fiction, history, and the demands of human rights. In the end, \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e asks us to reexamine in fiction what we think we cannot see; there, at the limits of the literary, disappearance appears as a vital agent of resistance, storytelling, and world-building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Elizabeth Bishop \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 258\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161453531271,"sku":"9781438478524","price":63.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/88f28a66ab145accbfdce52146dbf2e3.webp?v=1733281285","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-space-of-disappearance-a-narrative-commons-in-the-ruins-of-argentine-state-terror-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}