Author Bio

Luis Martin-Estudillo, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Iowa, is co-director of Ex Libris, Revista de Poesa. His latest book is La Mirada eliptica: el trasfondo barroco de la poesia Espanola contemporanea.

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Roberto Ampuero, a Chilean novelist and writer for the New York Times syndicate, is the author of nine novels, which have been translated into ten languages.

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Main Description

This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Roberto Ampuero and Luis Martn-Estudillo, "Consent and Its Discontents"

Contesting Power, Forging Commitment
1. Jorge Edwards, "Culture and Transition in Chile"
2. Juliet Lynd, "Writing from the Margins of the Chilean Miracle: Diamela Eltit and the Aesthetics and Politics of the Transition"
3. Hans-Otto Dill, "The Riders Get off the Horse: David Vias and the Demise of the Authoritarian Argentine Military"
4. Luis Bagu Qulez, "A Journey through the Desert: Trends of Commitment in Contemporary Spanish Poetry"

Interrogating Memories
5. Ana Forcinito, "Testimonial Narratives in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Survivors, Witnesses and the Reconstruction of the Past"
6. Gustavo Remedi, "Tejanos: The Uruguayan Transition Beyond"
7. Antonio Mndez Rubio, "Dancing with Destruction: Pop Music during the Spanish Transition"
8. Germn Labrador, "Popular Filmic Narratives and the Spanish Transition"

Looking In/Looking Out: Negotiating Identities
9. Estrella de Diego, "Staged Ethnicity, Acted Modernity: Identity and Gender Representations in Spanish Visual Culture (1968-2005)"
10. Carsten Humlebk, "Creating a new cohesive national discourse in Spain after Franco"
11. David W. Foster, "Intellectuals, Queer Culture, and Post-Military Argentina"
12. Heinrich Sassenfeld, "Some notes on International Influences on Transition Processes in the Southern Cone"

Afterword
Tom Lewi

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