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Robinson, Cheri Marie.

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Representations of Transnational Violence: Children in Contemporary Latin American Film, Literature, and Drawings.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Representations of Transnational Violence: Children in Contemporary Latin American Film, Literature, and Drawings./
Author:	Robinson, Cheri Marie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	287 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Latin American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10285420
ISBN:	9781369819083

Representations of Transnational Violence: Children in Contemporary Latin American Film, Literature, and Drawings.
Robinson, Cheri Marie.

Representations of Transnational Violence: Children in Contemporary Latin American Film, Literature, and Drawings. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 287 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2017.

In this study, I examine representational strategies revolving around extreme violence and child/adolescent protagonists in films, literature, children's drawings, and legal/political discourses in contemporary Latin American culture from an interdisciplinary approach. I analyze the mobilizing potential and uses of representations of child protagonists affected by violence and the cultures of impunity that facilitate its circulation. Within the works selected, I explore ways in which children can become sites of memory and justice through acts of witnessing, empathy, and the universal claim of natural law, with a primary focus on transnational and multidirectional depictions of violence (i.e. a violence in circulation) in extra-juridical, politicized, or aberrant environments in Latin American works. The historical periods contextualizing this study include the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) and its interconnectedness to the violence of WWII and the Holocaust in Reina Roffe's "La noche en blanco" (Chapter 1), the impact of transnational trajectories of genocidal violence in Argentine South Patagonia in 1959-1960 as depicted by Lucia Puenzo's novel Wakolda (Chapter 2), Argentina's transition to democracy (1990s) and the critical questions it raised regarding appropriated children and amnesty/justice in Dir. Gaston Biraben's Cautiva (Chapter 3), and the circulation of the traumatic in an orphanage in Mexican director Guillermo del Toro's filmic interpretation of violence during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in El espinazo del diablo (Chapter 4, Part A). My research investigates inter-discursivities from a non-traditional approach to literature, film, and archival drawings, which include fictional (diegetic) drawings by Spanish children (in del Toro's films) and non-fictional drawings made by Argentine children in exile in the Netherlands (Chapter 4, Part B).

ISBN: 9781369819083Subjects--Topical Terms:

2078811
Latin American literature.

Representations of Transnational Violence: Children in Contemporary Latin American Film, Literature, and Drawings.
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