| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 163 pages) |
| Series |
Contradictions ; volume 18 |
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Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 18.
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| Contents |
Memory in the contemporary world -- What memories are we talking about? -- Political struggles for memory -- History and social memory -- Trauma, testimony, and "truth" -- Engendered memories -- Transmissions, legacies, lessons -- Appendix: A chronology of political violence and human rights movements |
| Summary |
Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the Peace Commission in Uruguay, the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, a Truth Commission in Peru. As societies struggle to come to terms with the past and with the vexing questions posed by ineradicable memories, this wise book offers guidance. Combining a concrete sense of present urgency and a theoretical understanding of social, political, and historical realities, State Repression and the Labors of Memory fashions tools for thinking about and analyzing the presences, silences, and meanings of the past |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Spanish as Los trabajos de la memoria, copyright 2002 by SigloXX."--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Spanish |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed December 2, 2016) |
| Subject |
Political persecution -- South America
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- South America
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Memory -- Social aspects -- South America
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Memory -- Political aspects -- South America
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Memory (Philosophy)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Memory -- Political aspects
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Political persecution
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Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
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South America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rein, Judy, translator.
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Godoy-Anativia, Marcial, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780816695607 |
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0816695601 |
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