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Michael J. LazzaraAssistant Professor of Spanish Email:mjlazzara@ucdavis.edu |
Research Areas
Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture,
Literature of the Southern Cone, Chilean Culture, Dictatorships, Democratic
Transitions, Trauma, Memory, Exile and Migration.
Recent Publications
Books:
- Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory. Gaineseville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming in 2006.
- Carmen's Rust. A translation with introduction of Ana María del Río's novel Óxido de Carmen. New York: The Overlook Press, 2003.
- Los años de silencio: conversaciones con narradores chilenos que escribieron bajo dictadura. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2002.
- Diamela Eltit: conversación en Princeton. Princeton University: Program in Latin American Studies, 2002.
Recent Articles:
- "Crítica cultural" in Robert McKee Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk eds. Diccionario de estudios culturales. México: Instituto Mora, forthcoming 2007.
- "On Cultural Difference and Doing Research in Latin America" in Brújula 5.1 (forthcoming 2006).
- "Polyphonic Memories: Pinochet's Dictatorship in the Collective Imagination" in A contracorriente 4.1 (forthcoming 2006).
- "The Poetics of Impossibility: Diamela Eltit's El padre mío" in Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 35.1 (May 2006).
- "Luz Arce: militancia, colaboración, perdón (palabras desde la zona gris)" in Revista de crítica cultural 32 (November 2005).
- "Miradas políticas, miradas estéticas: un diálogo con Diamela Eltit" in Brújula 4.1 (2005).
- "Tres recorridos de Villa Grimaldi" in Elizabeth Jelin and "Victoria Langland eds. Monumentos, memoriales y marcas territoriales." Madrid/Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI Editores, 2003.
Current Projects
- Telling Ruins in Contemporary Latin America. A co-edited volume with Vicky Unruh (University of Kansas) on the image of urban ruins in Latin American cultural production at the turn of the millennium.
- Luz Arce: palabras desde la zona gris. A book length project featuring an extensive case study and interview with Luz Arce Sandoval, a former socialist militant during Chile's Popular Unity government who later became a collaborator with Pinochet's secret police organizations.
- Prismas de la memoria: literatura y trauma en la transición chilena. A Spanish translation of Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory (forthcoming from Editorial Cuarto Propio).
- Visions of Allende: Cultural Inscriptions of a Political Body. A new project dealing with competing visions (in multiple genres) of Allende and Popular Unity at different historical junctures.
