| Description |
1 online resource (xlviii, 297 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of color plates ) |
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The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory |
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Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
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| Contents |
Making space for recollection -- Mnemonic hauntings: photography as art of the missing -- Archaeologies of identity: the after generation's archival returns -- Purgatorio as memoryscape: literature, exile, and the project of transnational justice -- Affective transmissions: toward a pedagogy of human rights |
| Summary |
This book explores practices of recollection in contemporary Argentina that helped define the nation's approach to transitional justice in the first decades of the twenty-first century and enhances the critical literature on historical memory and trauma in Latin America by integrating affect theory to cultural representations of state violence |
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Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how this traumatic past should be transmitted to future generations. Two theoretical principles structure the book's approach to cultural recall: the first follows from an understanding of memory as a social construct that is always as much about the past as it is of the present; the second from the observation that what distinguishes memory from history is affect. These principles guide the study of iconic sites of memory in the city of Buenos Aires; photographic essays about the missing and the dictatorship's legacies of violence; documentary films by children of the disappeared that challenge hegemonic representations of seventies' militancy; a novel of exile that moves recollection across national boundaries; and a human rights education program focused on memory. Understanding recollection as a practice that lends coherence to disparate forces, energies, and affects, the book approaches these spatial, visual, and scripted registers as impassioned narratives that catalyze a new attentiveness within those they hail. It suggests, moreover, that by inciting deep reflection and an active engagement with the legacies of state violence, interventions like these can help advance the cause of transitional justice and contribute to the development of new political subjectivities invested in the construction of less violent futures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Collective memory -- Argentina
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Argentine literature
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Collective memory
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Argentina -- History -- 1983-2002. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007055
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Argentina -- Social conditions -- 1983- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007074
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Argentina
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021693781 |
| ISBN |
9781611488463 |
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161148846X |
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