{"id":186,"date":"2010-02-07T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wordpress\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T17:12:31","slug":"sophia-a-mcclennen-ariel-dorfman-an-aesthetics-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"McClennen,Sophia A. Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope. 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/gp\/product\/0822346044?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=interassocofi-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=0822346044\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DorfmanHope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"DorfmanHope\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DorfmanHope-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DorfmanHope-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.interamericanstudies.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DorfmanHope.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope<\/em> is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English, and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories, Dorfman has published in every major literary genre (novel, short story, poetry, drama); adopted literary forms including the picaresque, epic, noir, and theater of the absurd; and produced a vast amount of cultural criticism. His works are read as part of the Latin American literary canon, as examples of human rights literature, as meditations on exile and displacement, and within the tradition of bilingual, cross-cultural, and ethnic writing. Yet, as Sophia A. McClennen shows, when Dorfman\u2019s extensive writings are considered as an integrated whole, a cohesive aesthetic emerges, an \u201caesthetics of hope\u201d that foregrounds the arts as vital to our understanding of the world and our struggles to change it.<\/p>\n<p>To illuminate Dorfman\u2019s thematic concerns, McClennen chronicles the writer\u2019s life, including his experiences working with Salvador Allende and his exile from Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and she provides a careful account of his literary and cultural influences. Tracing his literary career chronologically, McClennen interprets Dorfman\u2019s less-known texts alongside his most well-known works, which include <em>How to Read Donald Duck<\/em>, the pioneering critique of Western ideology and media culture co-authored with Armand Mattelart, and the award-winning play <em>Death and the Maiden<\/em>. In addition, McClennen provides two valuable appendices: a chronology documenting important dates and events in Dorfman\u2019s life, and a full bibliography of his work in English and in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=interassocofi-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&amp;asins=0822346044\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Buy at Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/gp\/product\/0822346044?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=interassocofi-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=0822346044\" target=\"_blank\">Buy at Amazon.de<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McClennen, Sophia A. <em>Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope<\/em>. Duke University\u00a0 Press, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-book-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McClennen,Sophia A. 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