Conclusion

I have explored in this book a variety of approaches that Spanish American writers use to critique postmodern political and social conditions at a time when poststructuralist sensibilities have rendered the concept of critical distance obsolete. I have analyzed the manner in which Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Guillermo GómezPeña employ a strategy of interdisciplinary semiotic (con)fusion to deconstruct the panoptic strictures of hegemonic representation. Through a series of close readings I have attempted to demonstrate how these three Spanish American writers-artists-performers (con)fuse signs across a spectrum of nontraditional multimedia texts from which they encounter and critique the inescapable sociopolitical confusion of postmodernity.