Locating the Trauma Womb: Ricardo Pigliaâs Absent City

E.A. Leonard

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Locating the Trauma Womb: Ricardo Pigliaâs Absent City

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880856_013

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Many trauma theorists speculate about our ability to imagine and convey the experience of a crisis that is both unspeakable and irrefutable. Their reflections evoke a sense of the profound disruption of being and belonging that mark a crisis. Ricardo Pigliaâs literary depiction of the aftermath of Argentinaâs âdirty warâ is a particularly postmodern response to these theoristsâ musings; it demonstrates the indirect inscription and displacement of traumatic experience. The body in a postmodern world is not a singular centred identity. Many are interested in claiming a piece of it. Religious groups, medical science, gay rights activists, racial interest groups, feminists, governments, dictatorships - all want a claim to the corporeal space. The body is a political site in a postmodern world and sometimes it is problematic or dangerous to have one. Owning a body that has experienced both cultural and personal traumas is problematic because it is trapped between the past and the future in a place that is not the present. The Absent City serves the purpose of reframing the personal postmodern experience of trauma and in order to recuperate memory and the sense of the present, and to bear witness to the psychic diaspora of the Argentine people. The central trope of Pigliaâs novel is woman as storytelling machine. She is a cyborg, a technological invention that according to Heidegger, shouldnât be abandoned because of the challenges it presents to the natural world, but should be spiritually âshifted.â Piglia chose this trope to do just that and to demonstrate the profound misalignment that occurs when trauma forces repeated abandonment of the imagination.

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Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

ISBN:: 9781848880856

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 15 Apr 2011

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