Title: Postmemories of terror
Description: Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This fascinating work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediated knowledge of it. Susana Kaiser explores how the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing this past from three main sources: inter-generational dialogue, education and the communication media. These conversations discuss selected and recurrent themes like societal fears and silences, remembering and forgetting, historical explanations and accountability. Together they contribute to our understanding of how communities deal with the legacy of terror.
Subjects: Argentina Dirty War, 1976-1983, Attitudes, History, Influence, Interviews, Memory, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of State-sponsored terrorism, Public opinion, Social aspects of Memory, State-sponsored terrorism, Youth, Latin america, history, Social aspects, Culture, Study and teaching, Ethnology, America, Political science, Latin America, Politics and government
Places: Argentina, Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
Time periods: 20th century, Dirty War, 1976-1983