Postcards from Chile and Images from an Archive: Lighting the Nitrate of the 1973 Coup

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 Pino...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louise Purbrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/4/115