List of Publications
Dr Geoffrey Kantaris
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Hispanic Literature
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University Lecturer and Fellow
in Spanish
St Catharine's College
University of Cambridge |
On-line Publications
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"Allegorical
Cities: Bodies and Visions in Colombian Urban Cinema". Estudios
interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe [Tel Aviv] 9.2 (julio-diciembre, 1998). If this link is slow, try this alternative server
(without illustrations).
This paper compares two
Colombian films, Rodrigo D. No futuro by Víctor Gaviria and La
estrategia del caracol by Sergio Cabrera, in an attempt to show how, in
their different ways, they try to map the lines of intersection between body,
screen, and social space. Both films explore the dissolution and recombination
of (local) place under the speculative flows of economic and cultural
capital, and the decorporealization of space within the aggressive
(global) realm of visualization and the simulacrum. The paper uses analytical
categories developed by Henri Lefebvre and by cultural geographers such as
David Harvey and Derek Gregory.
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"Between
Dolls, Vampires, and Cyborgs: Recursive Bodies in Mexican Urban Cinema". Paper given to the Modern Languages Society,
University of Cambridge, November 1998, to the Society of Latin American
Studies conference, Cambridge April 1999. Also given at "Hispanic Studies and
Postmodernist Theories" conference, Institute of Romance Studies, University
of London, Friday 4th June 1999.
This paper examines two
films, Íntimo terror by Walter Doehner Pecanins and
Cronos by Guillermo del Toro. Both films attempt to capture, in very
different ways, the spatio-temporal rifts experienced in the megapolis. I
argue that both films appear to be tracing out the spatio-temporal boundaries
where the twin logic of representation and production phases into and out of a
recursive order of simulation and replication.
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"The Last
Snapshots of Modernity: Argentine Cinema after the ‘Process’ ".
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
[Glasgow] (April 1996).
This paper examines the 'framing' of
modernity in two Argentine films, Fernando Solanas' Sur (South, 1988)
and Eliseo Subiela's Últimas imágenes del naufragio (Last Images of
the Shipwreck, 1989).
- A multimedia web resource on the poetry
of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
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A seminar paper on "Avant-garde
/ Modernism / Postmodernism"
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"The
Politics of Desire: Alienation and Identity in the Work of Marta Traba
and Cristina Peri Rossi". Forum for Modern Language Studies [St Andrew’s]
25.3 (July 1989): 248-64.
Books and Articles - not available
on-line
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"Chariot of the Sun", fragment
from the Tapiz de la creación
Image appears on the front cover
of The Subversive Psyche (by kind permission of the Chapter
of Girona Cathedral)
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Book
The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary
Women’s Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay. Oxford University Press,
March 1996. 266pp.
Blurb: "This is an exciting and
original study of the links between gender and politics in the work of
six important contemporary women writers from Argentina and Uruguay. Through
detailed and theoretically sophisticate discussions of texts by six key
writers -- Luisa Valenzuela, Marta Traba, Sylvia Molloy, and Reina Roffé
(Argentina), and Cristina Peri Rossi and Armonía Somers (Uruguay)
-- Geoffrey Kantaris shows how their writing of the 1980s, including their
own critical and theoretical work, engages with, and often challenges,
Western theories of the construction of gender and its relation to identity
politics (notably psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and feminism). By situating
their work within the political turmoil of the period -- the brutal military
dictatorships and the necessity of political or cultural exile -- Kantaris
is able to show how these texts signal a shift of cultural perspective
in the Southern Cone, in which gender is no longer ignored in the construction
of national and political narratives."
Go the the Oxford University Press catalogue
entry for this book: site
in the USA or site
in the UK.
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Articles
"Re-Engendering History: María Luisa Bemberg’s Miss Mary".
Women’s Studies [UCLA] Forthcoming (January, 2000). Also to be published
in John King, ed., María Luisa Bemberg (2000).
"The Repressed Signifier: the Cinema of Alejandro
Agresti and Eliseo Subiela". Identity and Discursive Practice .
Ed. Francisco Domínguez. London: Peter Laing Publishers,
2000.
"Folk Song/Street Song: Poetry and Popular Tradition
in the Historical Avant-Garde". Changing Times in Hispanic
Culture. Ed. Derek Harris. Aberdeen: Centre
for the Study of the Hispanic Avant-Garde, 1996.
"The Silent Zone: Marta Traba". The Modern
Language Review
[London] 87.1 (January 1992): 86-101.
Contact information
I welcome contact from anyone working
in related areas, whether it be comment, enquiries, discussion of issues,
or offers for pooling of resources and sharing of information.
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E-mail: Geoffrey.Kantaris@caths.cam.ac.uk
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Facsimile: +44 1223 338340 (marked
for the attention of Dr Kantaris)
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Address: Dr Geoffrey Kantaris, St Catharine's
College, Cambridge CB2 1RL, England - UK
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Telephone: +44 1223 338312 (direct
line)