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Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

The Autofictional Turn, Playful Memories of Trauma and the Post-Dictatorship Generations Testimonies and the Preservation of Historical Memory Representation, Fiction and Allegory Anachronism and Autofiction Argentine Autofictions, Affect and the Subjective Turn Playing with Trauma Notes Toying with History in Albertina Carri’s Los rubios Play as Topsy-Turvy Sacred Albertina Carri’s Kampf Toy (Hi)stories and Playbacks Notes Self-Fictionalization, Parody and Testimony in Diario de una princesa montonera—110 % Verdad and Montonerisima Huachos: From Postmemory to Post-orphanhood A (Cyber) Damsel in Distress A New Lexicon of Terror Notes Happily Ever After? Guerrilla Fables and Fairy Tales of Disappearance Si Alice viviera sema Montonera Los ninos del Proceso in Never (Again) Land The Enchanted Generation Notes Lucila Quieto’s Ludic Gaze Indexicality and Victimhood Prosthetic Memories of Absence Crafting History Photographing the Invisible (Generational) Ways of Seeing Outside the Lines Notes The Defamiliarized Past in Felix Bruzzone’s Comical Autofictions Las chanchas: Stranger than Reality The Hamlet Generation and a Multidirectional Memory of Disappearance Becoming Animals Notes Monstrous Memories The Copyright of Memory The Unwelcome Legacy Autofiction as a Monstrosity Notes Bibliography

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The Autofictional Turn, Playful Memories of Trauma and the Post-Dictatorship Generations
It is 1972. A five-year-old girl is sitting in the corner of a small kitchen while a man and a woman, possibly her parents, are setting the table for dinner. All of a sudden, a loud noise, stronger than a knock, interrupts them. Armed men break into the house. Everybody is shouting. In a second scene,...
(Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina)
Argentine Autofictions, Affect and the Subjective Turn
If the neologism “autofiction” is young, it is even younger in the Hispanic world. Very few theoretical texts, most of which are written in French, have been translated into Spanish, or even English. In the Anglophone world, scholars have preferred other terms, such as “new journalism” or “faction”...
(Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina)
Memory’s “Transnational Turn”
Over the past two decades, geographers have increasingly theorized the intimate relationship between memory, space, and place (see Johnson 2005; Till 2005; Hoskins 2007; Hoelscher 2008; Legg 2007; Azaryahu and Foote 2008; Dwyer and Aiderman 2008; Rose-Redwood, Aiderman, and Azaryahu 2008; Stangl 2008;...
(Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11:Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum)
The Cognitive Turn: Metaphor and Metaphor Translation
Unlike rhetoric or classic metaphors, which need time to process mentally, linguistic expressions that are manifestations of conceptual metaphors comprise ordinary language used in daily communication and therefore do not need much processing. Conceptual Metaphor The study of metaphor shifted...
(African Perspectives on Literary Translation)
Women as Protagonists in West African Plays Translated in Cuba
Rocío Anguiano Pérez University of Valladolid, Spain The translation of African literature into Spanish, both in Spain and in Latin America, was almost non-existent until the end of the twentieth century. In the case of Spain, Valero et al. (2004) state that, in the early 1990s, the...
(African Perspectives on Literary Translation)
Future research: exploring the affective and playful dimensions of conspiracy theories
Research on conspiracy theories is mostly rather serious business. It features the causes and consequences of a cultural phenomenon that is generally regarded a societal problem and hence focuses (too) much on its dangers (Harambam 2020b, 216). This obscures the affective and playful dimensions that...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)
Populism’s rightward turn in the post-war era
Following in Coughlins steps, after the Second World War, American populisms foundation shifted from left-leaning critiques of the economic system to right-wing concerns over cultural elitism and governmental power (Kazin 1998). Factors shaping this evolution included the transformative New Deal, growing...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)
Media and populism at the turn of century
In the beginning of the new century, the relationship between populism and media in Latin America found an expression in two parallel processes, which Waisbord (2014) summarises with precision: on the one hand, ‘the politization of the media’ and, on the other, ‘the mediatizaron of politics’...
(The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism)
The Development of Drop-in Play Centers
The development of drop-in play centers for preschoolers and their parents must be understood in the context of an aging population in postindustrial Japan. During the 1990s declining total fertility rates became a serious issue for the state as it faced a growing number of older persons. The shrinking...
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Drop-In Play Centers: The Physical Settings
A drop-in play center provides an indoor play space for parents and their young children. A center comes with a playroom with a range of toys, big and small, appropriate for children of different ages. Some play centers have several rooms or sections organized according to theme or children's ages. For...
(Capturing contemporary Japan: differentiation and uncertainty)