Reckoning with Pinochet
Subtitle: the memory question in democratic Chile, 1989-2006
By: Steve J. Stern
Series: Latin America otherwise; Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780822347125; 9780822347293
Description: Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America's 'dirty war' dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile's future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile's democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in 2003, of the coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende; and Pinochet's death in 2006.
Notes: "Book three of the trilogy: The memory box of Pinochet's Chile."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-524) and index.
Table of contents: title: The perils of truth : opening the memory box, 1989/1990; title: Afterword: "My dear President"; title: Toward memory impasse? The truth commission moment, 1990/1991; title: Afterword: The futility of history?; title: The circle of truth, justice, and force, 1990/1994; title: Afterword: The sound of tick-tock; title: Between prudence and convulsion : memory, triumphalism, and disenchantment, 1994/1997; title: Afterword: The joys of "not too much"; title: The turn : consequences of 1998; title: Afterword: Covering history with history? The making of silence; title: Memory as unfinished work : new reckonings, 2002/2006; title: Afterword: Unsettled monuments : the struggle for Londres 38; title: Reframing democratic transition : toward the memory paradox of Bachelet's Chile; title: Afterword: The curious burial of Augusto Pinochet.