Javier I. Mocarquer
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- School: Providence College
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Biography
Providence College - Languages
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Higher Education
Javier
Mocarquer
Providence, Rhode Island
Javier Mocarquer is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Providence College. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Notre Dame (2015) with a specialization in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, especially from the Southern Cone and Brazil. He also earned an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College (2010), a magíster en Filología Hispánica from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2009), and a licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2007). His teaching and research interests cover the tensions between aesthetics and politics, cultural, gender studies, and critical theory.
Experience
University of Notre Dame
Spanish and Portuguese Instructor
Javier worked at University of Notre Dame as a Spanish and Portuguese Instructor
Providence College
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Javier worked at Providence College as a Assistant Professor of Spanish
Universidad San Sebastian
Profesor Adjunto
Javier worked at Universidad San Sebastian as a Profesor Adjunto
Education
Harvard University
Institute for World Literature, Department of Comparative Literature
University of Notre Dame
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Literature
University of Notre Dame
Spanish and Portuguese Instructor
Universidade de Lisboa
Institute for World Literature (Harvard University)
Publications
Excesos y excedentes del Chile postdictatorial en el proyecto contrahegemónico de Diamela Eltit.
A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America
Resumen En este artículo se estudian cuatro obras clave de la escritora chilena Diamela Eltit: El padre mío (1989), El infarto del alma (1994), Los vigilantes (1994) y Mano de obra (2002). A través de estos textos se analiza cómo la narrativa de Eltit elabora fórmulas de resistencia a los mecanismos de represión postdictatoriales, especialmente a través de tres tópicos o ejes de articulación: la locura, la vigilancia y sospecha, y la lógica excluyente del modelo capitalista de mercado. Dichas temáticas resultan ser los excedentes de la violencia política que ejerció la dictadura militar chilena, aspectos que se discuten para reflexionar sobre sus implicancias materiales y simbólicas. Palabras clave: postdictadura, violencia política, locura, vigilancia, sospecha, capitalismo Abstract This article analyzes four key works written by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit: El padre mío (1989), El infarto del alma (1994), Los vigilantes (1994), and Mano de obra (2002). Using these texts, I analyze how Eltit’s narrative creates forms of resistance against the Post-dictatorial mechanisms of repression, especially through three main themes or points of articulation: madness, vigilance and suspicion, and the exclusionary logic of the capitalist model of market. These themes represent the excesses of the political violence exerted by the Chilean military dictatorship, aspects that are discussed herein to reflect upon their material and symbolic implications. Keywords: Post-Dictatorship, Political Violence, Madness, Vigilance, Suspicion, Capitalism
