The photography condition of the narration: Sergio Chejfec and his documentary narratives

Authors

  • Florencia Garramuño Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Humanidades

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p29-42

Keywords:

Contemporary Literature, Photography, Chejfec

Abstract

Some of the more radical contemporary writings of the last years are elaborations not any longer based on a human or individual preeminence. Figures of the impersonal and anonymous evidence a turning away from subjective or individual life. What is the power of the impersonal in these writings? What problems do they make visible? In this article, I read Modo linterna, by Sergio Chejfec, in ortder to think how this turning away from the subjective and the personal affects the exposition of an experience that distances itself from a subjective prism, and what kind of consequences, aesthetic and political, these writings carry

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Author Biography

  • Florencia Garramuño, Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Humanidades

    Florencia Garramuño é doutora em Línguas e Literaturas Românicas pela Universidade de Princeton. Dirige o Departamento de Humanidades da Universidad de San Andrés. Publicou, entre outros, os livros Modernidades Primitivas: Tango, Samba y Nación, La experiencia opaca, Frutos Estranhos. Ensaios sobre a inespecificidade na Estética Contemporânea y Mundos en común.

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Published

2019-06-19

How to Cite

GARRAMUÑO, Florencia. The photography condition of the narration: Sergio Chejfec and his documentary narratives. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 17, p. 29–42, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p29-42. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/caracol/article/view/159113.. Acesso em: 2 jun. 2024.