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 th...

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1. Verfasser:	Tandeciarz, Silvia Roxana (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
Schriftenreihe:	Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Schlagworte:	Since 1900 Argentine literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Collective memory > Argentina. Littérature argentine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Mémoire collective > Argentine. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese. Argentine literature Collective memory Social conditions Argentina > History > 1983-2002. Argentina > Social conditions > 1983- Argentine > Histoire > 1983-2002. Argentine > Conditions sociales > 1983- Argentina Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Zusammenfassung:	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. 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.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xlviii, 297 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of color plates ).
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.
ISBN:	9781611488463 161148846X