Remembering Pinochet's Chile
Subtitle: on the eve of London, 1998
By: Steve J. Stern.
Series: Latin America otherwise; The memory box of Pinochet's Chile ;; bk. 1
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Memory; Autobiographical memory; Chile -- History -- 1973-1988; Chile -- History -- Coup d'état, 1973 -- Psychological aspects
Description: "In 1998, General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on charges of crimes against humanity. All over the world, but especially in Chile, the shocking arrest thrust the former dictator and the atrocities of his regime back into the public eye. During the two years just before the arrest, the renowned historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a framework for understanding memory struggles in history. At once analytical, poignant, and personal, Remembering Pinochet's Chile offers a human portrait of Chile's memory drama on the eve of the London arrest."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Heroic memory : ruin into salvation; title: Childhood holidays, childhood salvation; title: Dissident memory : rupture, persecution, awakening; title: The lore of goodness and remorse; title: Indifferent memory : closing the box on the past; title: The accident : temptations of silence; title: From loose memory to emblematic memory : knots on the social body; title: Memory tomb of the Unknown Soldier; title: Memories and silences of the heart.