Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera
After the failure of the policies against drug trafficking and the consequent rise of extreme violence in the US-Mexico border, many writers have started to investigate the ethical and political responsibility of writing about citizens’ pain caused by this kind of violence. This paper discusses the...
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| description | After the failure of the policies against drug trafficking and the consequent rise of extreme violence in the US-Mexico border, many writers have started to investigate the ethical and political responsibility of writing about citizens’ pain caused by this kind of violence. This paper discusses the strategies of writing and social practices of the border writers, both Mexican and Chicanos. In particular, I analyse the function of the detective fiction as a form of social and political complaint and the function of documental poetry. The aim of this literature is not only to present the horror produced by violence, but also to reveal what can remain to the survivors. The experimentalism of the detective fiction, for example, explains how the simple resolution of any detective case is not enough, if the risk is after all the oblivion. Through the theory of representation of pain by Susan Sontag and the concept of opacity of the subject to itself stated by Judith Butler, the aim is to demonstrate how this authors can avoid the risk of the “reification” of pain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-78d13e59dd4c4ab9ba5b93eaf05748b62023-09-02T03:37:53ZengUNICApressBetween2039-65972016-05-0151010.13125/2039-6597/15431495Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontieraLaura Alicino0Università di BolognaAfter the failure of the policies against drug trafficking and the consequent rise of extreme violence in the US-Mexico border, many writers have started to investigate the ethical and political responsibility of writing about citizens’ pain caused by this kind of violence. This paper discusses the strategies of writing and social practices of the border writers, both Mexican and Chicanos. In particular, I analyse the function of the detective fiction as a form of social and political complaint and the function of documental poetry. The aim of this literature is not only to present the horror produced by violence, but also to reveal what can remain to the survivors. The experimentalism of the detective fiction, for example, explains how the simple resolution of any detective case is not enough, if the risk is after all the oblivion. Through the theory of representation of pain by Susan Sontag and the concept of opacity of the subject to itself stated by Judith Butler, the aim is to demonstrate how this authors can avoid the risk of the “reification” of pain.http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/1543letteratura e politicaletteratura di frontieraromanzo poliziescopoesia documentalenuova cronaca. |
| spellingShingle | Laura Alicino Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera Between letteratura e politica letteratura di frontiera romanzo poliziesco poesia documentale nuova cronaca. |
| title | Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| title_full | Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| title_fullStr | Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| title_short | Tra letteratura, cronaca e politica: strategie contro l'oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| title_sort | tra letteratura cronaca e politica strategie contro l oblio nelle scritture di frontiera |
| topic | letteratura e politica letteratura di frontiera romanzo poliziesco poesia documentale nuova cronaca. |
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