Abstract
This article examines a mass produced postcard image as a picture of conflict. It considers the postcard as a Benjaminian ‘prismatic fringe’ through which an archive can be viewed, wherein documents of the British trade in Chilean nitrate are juxtaposed with those of General Pinochet’s 1973 military coup. The archive itself is explored as a site of loss and its postcard, an unvarying idealisation, as a particularly problematic but powerful image that renders conflict out of sight
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 115 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Humanities |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Nov 2018 |
Bibliographical note
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).Keywords
- postcard
- archive
- conflict
- nitrate
- memory
- trace
- Chile