Salt in the sand
Subtitle: memory, violence, and the nation-state in Chile, 1890 to the present
By: Lessie Jo Frazier.
Series: Politics, history, and culture
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822339861; 9780822340034
Subjects: Collective memory -- Chile; Political violence -- Chile -- History -- 20th century; Political persecution -- Chile -- History -- 20th century; Political crimes and offenses -- Chile -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory; title: Templates; title: Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation; title: Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapac (1890/present); title: Conjunctures; title: Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890/1891) and la corua (1925) massacres; title: Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907); title: Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973; title: 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984); title: The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living; title: Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile; title: Notes; title: Selective bibliography.