Description: Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"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