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SUMMARY:Violent Reverberations: The Politics of History in César Aira’s
  'Ema\, la cautiva' (Ema\, the Captive) - Niall Geraghty (Darwin)
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CONTACT:Gui Xi Young
DESCRIPTION:Where much research focuses on comic and playful elements in C
 ésar Aira’s work\, or on the forms of Aira’s literature and its relat
 ionship with Argentine or Latin American literary tradition\, this paper c
 onstructs a political reading of Aira’s novel 'Ema\, la cautiva'. I cons
 ider the historical circumstances of the periods in which Aira set and pub
 lished his novel (immediately prior to the culminating episode in the Conq
 uest of the Desert in 1879 and during the military government of 1976-1983
  when references to the Conquest of the Desert were utilised to justify th
 e ‘dirty war’) to argue that\, although Aira’s ironic mode of writin
 g makes the development of parallels between historical periods fraught wi
 th difficulty\, the novel contains a latent critique of the military gover
 nment\, the dirty war and of Peronist economic policies prior to the coup 
 of 1976. Additionally\, I consider Ema\, la cautiva in conjunction with th
 e work of Dipesh Chakrabarty and Deleuze and Guattari to explore the inadv
 ertent structural violence of ‘universal history’ exercised upon indig
 enous communities in Argentina and the ‘everyday paradox of third-world 
 social science’
LOCATION:Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building
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