Space of Disappearance

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is the editor of Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Space of Disappearance: Knowledge, Form, RightsHistorical DistortionsModes of DisappearanceRefraction and ResistanceLiterary Form and Human RightsAt the Limits of the LiteraryThe Book to Come1. Mimesis by Other Means: The Aesthetics of Disappearance in Rodolfo Walsh's "Variaciones en rojo"Operation True CrimeIn the BeginningVariations in RedPrivileged SightThe Framing and Unframing of ArtBloody Dawn2. Double Exposure: The Hermeneutics of Catastrophe in Julio Cortázar's Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionalesA Fellowship of ExileOn Gaining Political PurchaseSmokescreenCatastrophe and ConsciousnessDouble VisionForce of Form3. In Abeyance: Strategies of Suspension in Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de PerónOther LogicsA Deliberate GapDead CenterWhat World Is This?Where in the World?Anticipatory Fictions4. Errant Metonymy: The Embodiment of Disappearance in Tomás Eloy Martínez's Santa EvitaLiquid SunNull IntersectionSimulacra, Site, and the SuperabundantBurial Plots in the BardoAesthetic JusticeConclusion: The Disappearance of LiteratureNotesWorks CitedIndex

"Bishop offers fresh, new readings of works by major figures, and her particular take on disappearance as 'a constitutive component of form and narrative structure' is original and illuminating. Moreover, she provides the tools for reading disappearance in works of fiction from other parts of the world where writers have also responded to the sort of detention and disappearance that Argentina has given a name to, but that is, sadly, practiced far more widely." — Amy K. Kaminsky, author of Argentina: Stories for a Nation