@book{pastén_2020, place={Albuquerque}, title={Postmodernism of resistance in Roberto Bolano's fiction and poetry}, publisher={University of New Mexico Press}, author={Pastén, J.Agustín}, year={2020} }
 @article{pasten_2016, title={Violence and bodies under siege in the works of Diamela Eltit, Lina Meruane and Fatima Sime}, DOI={10.1353/hsf.2016.0059}, abstractNote={MyrIad texts, images and events come to mind when thinking about violence: Homer’s Illiad, the old testament, las Casas’s Brevísima destrucción, Lord of the Flies, A Clockwork Orange, 2666’s “La parte de los crímenes”; Picasso’s “Guernica,” “La haine,” tarantino’s films, “Breaking Bad”; slavery (both past and present), the armenian Genocide, the two world wars, the Holocaust, the death and disappearance of thousands of political prisoners under many dictatorships the world over, the rwanda Genocide, drug trafficking, Guantánamo, CIa torture of terror suspects, sexual assault on college campuses, ISIS, the recent killings of unarmed black men by white policemen in the United States, the assassination and disappearance of forty three students in the town of Iguala, Mexico, among many, many others acts. “No one engaged in thought about history and politics can remain unaware of the enormous role violence has always played in human affairs” (8), wrote Hannah arendt some forty years ago.1 Now, if violence is defined as “the exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse” (“Violence”), one would probably have to include the violence exerted upon millions and millions of chickens, pigs, cows and other animals for the purpose of human consumption. But, of course, violence is not simply, and not always, “the exertion” of physical force. Sometimes it is the threat of exertion of physical force. From this perspective, the entire colonizing enterprise of countries such as Portugal, Spain, England, France and others could well be conceived of as having imposed a perennial state of violence upon subjugated peoples. Similarly, wasn’t modernity a kind of violence, as some have claimed?2 did it not, in its very being, conceal a potential violent thrust, as adorno and Horkheimer warned? (Horkheimer and adorno). Isn’t capitalism, after all, also a kind of violence? Finally,}, number={178}, journal={Hispanofila}, author={Pasten, B. J. A.}, year={2016}, pages={51–66} }
 @article{pasten b_2014, title={DIALECTICAL GEOGRAPHIES IN CONTEMPORARY CHILEAN LITERATURE: THE CASE OF DIAMELA ELTIT'S NARRATIVE PRODUCTION}, volume={54}, ISSN={["0035-7995"]}, DOI={10.1353/rmc.2014.0016}, abstractNote={WIthout a doubt, spatial representations are as multifarious as life itself. From the seemingly real depictions of space in texts such as Álvar Núñez’s Naufragios and Bernal Díaz’s Historia verdadera, to more imaginary representations of space such as Cadalso’s Cartas, Céline’s Voyage and Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos, or even litero-ethno-sociological portrayals of the likes of Carrió de la Vandera’s Lazarillo or Claude Lévi-Strauss’s ethnographic Tristes Tropiques as well as the purely literary journeys of critics such as Guy Davenport’s brilliant The Geography of the Imagination, it would appear as if space’s fate, of necessity, is to be the victim of representation and even theorization (think of Blanchot, Lefebvre or Jameson, for instance). It would appear, moreover, that engravings in general, followed by the first photograph and especially the public introduction of photography in 1839, immensely enriched the possibilities of spatial representation, directly or indirectly enabling, in the case of Latin America, the creation of the deliciously intimate geographies of the modernist novel (De sobremesa, Amistad funesta) as well as the wide-open locales of texts bent on inscribing the nation (La vorágine, Doña Bárbara), as Carlos Alonso has noted regarding the so-called “novelas de la tierra.” Now, if in narrative representation in general space perennially oscillates between what could be called an outside and an inside, one might safely argue that Chilean novelist Diamela Eltit privileges enclosed settings. At the same time, it could be said that, to a}, number={1}, journal={ROMANCE NOTES}, author={Pasten B, J. Agustin}, year={2014}, pages={31–39} }