Susana Draper
Susana Draper’s areas of interest include contemporary Latin American literature and intellectual histories, visual arts, continental philosophy, spatial theory, human rights issues, and prison writing. She is the author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo (Montevideo, Amuleto 2009) and Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America (Pitt Illuminations), 2012. She is currently working on another book-length manuscript, Imprisoned Worlds: Experiments in Freedom and Cognitive Democracy in 1968 Mexico, a study of the forms of figuration of freedom and cognitive democracy in prison literature, philosophical writings and visual arts. The book approaches imprisonment by focusing on the figurability of political activism and social change from varied angles that are conflictive because of issues of class, political standing, and gender difference.
Books
Aferlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, Series Illuminations: Cultural Formations in the Americas, 2012.
Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: crítica cultural y políticas del nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo. Montevideo: Editorial Amuleto, 2009.
Articles, book chapters, book reviews
“Las prisiones del archivo: pasado y presente de Lecumberri en Cementerio de papel,” Modern Language Notes (forthcoming 2013).
“Continuar el 68 por otros ‘medios’ - arquitectónica y óptica de poder en la cárcel de Lecumberri (Historia de un documento, 1971).” Book chapter in Efectos de imagen: ¿qué fue y qué es el cine militante? Edited by Oscar Ariel Cabezas and Elixabete Goicoechea. Santiago de Chile: LOM-Arcis (forthcoming 2013).
“Fragmentos de futuro en los abismos del pasado: Amuleto (1968-1998). Book chapter in Fuera de quicio –sobre Bolaño en el tiempo de sus espectros, edited by Raúl Freire. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Ripio (Forthcoming, 2012).
“Making the Past Perceptible: Reflections on the Temporal and Visual Enframings of Violence in the Memory Museum,” Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society. 4.2 (2012): 94-111.
“De cárceles y museos de la memoria: alas, itinerarios artísticos y encuadre de temporalidades.” Contemporánea: historia y problemas del siglo XX. Universidad de la República, Uruguay. 2.2 (2011)
“Juan José Saer’s The Sixty-Five Years of Washington” (Book review). America's Society. Special issue: Cuba inside and out. 44.1 (2011): 180-1.
“The Business of Memory: Reconstructing Torture Centers as Shopping Malls and Tourist Sites.” Book chapter in Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America (The Cultures and Practices of Violence), edited by Leigh A. Payne and Ksenija Bilbija. Durham: Duke UP (2011).
“The Question of Awakening in Post-Dictatorship Chile: Reading Walter Benjamin with Diamela Eltit,” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Special issue on Walter Benjamin in Latin America. 32.1 (2010): 87-116.
“Emilio Crenzel’s La historia política del Nunca Más. La memoria de las desapariciones en la Argentina” (Book review). Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe. 21.1 (2010): 35-6.
“Spatial Juxtaposition and Temporal Imagery in Postdictatorship Literature,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. 18.1 (2009): 33-54.
“Entre política y crítica cultural: J.E. Rodó y la microsociología de Proteo,” Latin American Literary Review XXXIV.67 (2006): 50-74.
“El boom en Mundo Nuevo: crítica literaria, mercado y la guerra (fría) de las valoraciones,” Modern Language Notes 121.2 (2006): 417-38.
Recent Publications
1. Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America (Pitt Illuminations)
