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Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena: an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991)

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Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena: an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991). / Thakkar, Amit.
In: Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 32, No. 4, 10.2013, p. 438–450.

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Thakkar, A 2013, 'Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena: an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991)', Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 438–450. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12061

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Thakkar, A. (2013). Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena: an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991). Bulletin of Latin American Research, 32(4), 438–450. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12061

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Thakkar A. Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena: an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991). Bulletin of Latin American Research. 2013 Oct;32(4):438–450. doi: 10.1111/blar.12061

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Thakkar, Amit. / Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena : an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991). In: Bulletin of Latin American Research. 2013 ; Vol. 32, No. 4. pp. 438–450.

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abstract = "In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegacio{\' } n) under Pinochet{\textquoteright}s regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}structural violence{\textquoteright} against Ramiro{\textquoteright}s masculinity, that strategies of {\textquoteleft}hiding{\textquoteright} individual bodies for the sake of the {\textquoteleft}social body{\textquoteright} are relevant to biopolitics (Michel Foucault), and that La frontera exploits the formal potential of latency to reveal how Ramiro rebuilds his masculinity within what Raewyn Connell would term the {\textquoteleft}reproductive arena{\textquoteright}. Ramiro{\textquoteright}s resulting, alternative masculinity represents a challenge for the reconstruction of post-Pinochet Chile.",
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