Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

Name: Paper Cadavers The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
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ISBN: 9780822356028

ISBN-10: 0822356023

ISBN-13: 9780822356028

Edition: 2014

Authors: Kirsten Weld

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In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960-1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America.The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English