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TY - JOUR
T1 - Latency, biopolitics and the reproductive arena
T2 - an alternative masculinity in Ricardo Larraín's 'La frontera' (1991)
AU - Thakkar, Amit
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegacio ́ n) under Pinochet’s regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung’s ‘structural violence’ against Ramiro’s masculinity, that strategies of ‘hiding’ individual bodies for the sake of the ‘social body’ 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 ‘reproductive arena’. Ramiro’s resulting, alternative masculinity represents a challenge for the reconstruction of post-Pinochet Chile.
AB - In the Chilean film La frontera (1991), the dissident Ramiro is condemned to internal exile (relegacio ́ n) under Pinochet’s regime. My reading of the film is informed by three theories: I argue that this punishment is an act of Johan Galtung’s ‘structural violence’ against Ramiro’s masculinity, that strategies of ‘hiding’ individual bodies for the sake of the ‘social body’ 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 ‘reproductive arena’. Ramiro’s resulting, alternative masculinity represents a challenge for the reconstruction of post-Pinochet Chile.
KW - biopolitics
KW - Chile
KW - Chilean film
KW - dictatorship
KW - exile
KW - La frontera
KW - masculinity
KW - reproductive arena
KW - violence
U2 - 10.1111/blar.12061
DO - 10.1111/blar.12061
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 438
EP - 450
JO - Bulletin of Latin American Research
JF - Bulletin of Latin American Research
SN - 0261-3050
IS - 4
ER -