University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction
Abstract
dc:description"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."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Spanish
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Funes, Marisela Ana
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Idelber v. Avelar
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3070306
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86118