Abstract
Author(s): Editorial Board, Refract Journal | Abstract: Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal Refraction | Volume 1 | Issue 1
Highlights
Cassils uses gendered aesthetics such as bikini tops, jock straps, stark-red lipstick, and bulging biceps to confront the viewer with their gendered expectations
Much of what Cassils advertises is countered with a shroud of secrecy, continually covering the one place on the body where society constitutes manliness or womanliness
Cassils makes things visible and invisible, creating an inbetweeness that never allows the viewer to land on what sex or gender this person is or is not; this creates spaces for disorientation
Summary
Torture is a storytelling device in that it attempts to (re)narrate and extricate the lives of others, often in the name of a potentially fallacious official memory. States around the world have used torture to extract information and reaffirm their own narrative; due to this legacy of state violence, many post-trauma works aim to reveal the extent of the practice and the damage it causes as a form of resistance. Arguing that writing is the primary act of resistance, Page looks at the role of fiction in the novel and how fictional works order and define reality Her focus is on Elena as a literary machine but not as an actual machine. After exploring the ways that Piglia deploys the glitch I will begin to theorize what a politics founded in Elena’s mistranslations and errors would look like and how such a politics might offer new insight into other post-trauma Argentine works. She has no specific plan or goal and does not commit these acts with an intent at disrupting the amnesia the population of the fictional Buenos Aires is suffering from.[9]
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