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0000-0003-1673-8723
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University of Tasmania
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2021
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 10-2021
Abstract: To speak of “Latin America” is to seek a frame of negotiation between those for whom it remains a pragmatic grouping, those who regard it as a psychic and geographic zone of experience, and those for whom it serves little other purpose than as a postcolonial mirage. And it’s certainly true that in the case of artists Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948–1985) and Cecilia Vicuña (Chile, b. 1948) a negotiation of zones takes on a particularly haunting mirage. Resisting the alluring and troubling “coherences” of African and Indian postcolonial returns in contemporary art (T. J. Demos, Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art, Sternberg Press, 2013), this paper argues that the zone of Latin America remains decidedly incoherent. The work of Mendieta and Vicuña conjure a cacophony of ghosts through the active resistance of easy conflations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous postcolonial experience. Through examining the hospitality that we must show to ghosts, Derrida’s marranismo reminds us that the guest speaks of a justice to come. In understanding the Latin American experience, this paper argues, the guest and the ghost share more than a phonological likeness.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Index Journal
Date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-06-2018
Publisher: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Date: 2020
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