The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay [electronic resource] : Collective Memory and Cultural Production /
Ros, A.author.
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature.
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Cover; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Write about the Post-dictatorship Generation?; Collective Memory and Intergenerational Transmission; Part I: Pushing the Envelope: Memory Formation in Argentina; 1 Collective Memory from the Dictatorship to the Present; 2 Living the Absence: The Children of the Desaparecidos; "They Live On in Our Struggle"; They Live On in Our Everyday Struggles; 3 Addressing Silences, Taboos, and Margins; Los rubios: Icebreaker and Trigger; The Quest for "Papá Iván" behind the Dead Hero
The Rabbit House: Remembering "that particular Argentine insanity""History Doesn't Tell Itself": Nicolás Prividera's M; 4 Building Bridges between Generations; Children and Revolution: El tiempo y la sangre and Encontrando a Víctor; El mar y la serpiente: "We Cannot Change the Past, But . . ."; Demasiados héroes: "I'd rather he was dead"; 5 The Past in the Present, the Present in the Future; Diario argentino: WhereWere You When History Was Happening?; Cordero de Dios: On Life Priorities and the Priority of Life; . . .Victory Always: Restituted Children Restore Politics
Part II: Chile and Uruguay:Memory Struggles in Negotiated Transitions6 Chile: Overcoming the Stunned State of the People; Collective Memory from the Dictatorship to the Present; Pinochet's Children?; The End? Volver a vernos, Actores secundarios, and Apgar 11; El astuto mono Pinochet: The Dictatorship through Children's Eyes; Jogging Memory: Reinalda del Carmen, mi mamá y yo, and La quemadura; 7 Uruguay: Memory Struggles against the Clock; Collective Memory from the Dictatorship to the Present; The Post-dictatorship Generation: Unlocking the Past
The Predicament of Nostalgia: Acero y piel, Destino Final, and Crónica de un sueñoThe Past as a Challenge: Two Short Stories and a Comic; Conclusion: The Never-Ending Path to the Never Again; Not Even Past: Unexplored Aspects and a Critical Relation to the Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature.
America—History.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Latin America—Politics and government.
Political science.
Motion pictures—History.
History of the Americas.
Latin American Culture.
Latin American Politics.
Political Science.
Film History.