The post-dictatorship generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
Subtitle: collective memory and cultural production
By: Ana Ros
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230120600
Subjects: Collective memory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; HISTORY / Latin America / South America; History
Description: "Southern Cone post-dictatorship generations reshape the collective memory of the dictatorial past through political activism and forms of artistic expression (cinema, literature, comics and photography). The author situates their work at the intersection of the individual and the collective: it is enabled by changes in the political context and can have a profound impact on the collective level. At the same time, these projects help artists and activists work through traumatic events individually. The first part of the book focuses on Argentina, where this generation's public interventions have broadened social involvement in remembering the past and encouraged learning from it for the sake of the present. In the second part, the author compares the exemplary achievements in Argentina with Chile and Uruguay, where political conditions are less conducive to genuine debate. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Why We Should Keep Talking about the Past * Part I: Argentina: A Regional Model for the Collective Elaboration of a Violent Past * Collective Memory from the Dictatorship to the Emergence of H.I.J.O.S. * Towards an Elaboration: The Lonely Side of the Journey to the Past * Critically Assessing the Past through its Protagonists * A One-on-one Between Generations * The Past in the Present, the Present in the Future * Part II: Chile and Uruguay: Early Stages of an Ongoing Process * Chile: The Struggle for Human Rights in a Fearful and Militarized Society * Uruguay: Collective Memory, Secrets and Double Standards * Conclusion: The never-ending path to the "Never Again".