The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
Funes, Marisela Ana
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Description
Title
The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
Author(s)
Funes, Marisela Ana
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Idelber v. Avelar
Department of Study
Spanish
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Cinema
Language
eng
Abstract
"This dissertation examines the relationship between medicine, literature and film during and after Argentina's ""Dirty War"" (1976--1983). It presents an analysis of novels by Marta Traba, Ana Maria Shua, Marta Lynch, and Tununa Mercado, and others, and films by Eliseo Subiela, Luis Puenzo, and Marco Bechis and others. Through this analysis it shows how Argentina's long tradition of medicalization is depicted and criticized. I conclude that in response to the totalizing discourse of medicine used by the military, novels and films re-appropriate its uses and metaphors, thereby subverting official versions of history. The interdisciplinary topic of this dissertation has implications not only in the humanities and social sciences, but reaches beyond Argentine literature and contributes to an understanding of other societies in their transition to democracy."
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