Where Memory Dwells Culture and State Violence in Chile

Name: Where Memory Dwells Culture and State Violence in Chile
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ISBN: 9780520255845

ISBN-10: 0520255844

ISBN-13: 9780520255845

Edition: 2010

Authors: Macarena Gomez-Barris

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The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an outpouring of fiction, art, film, and drama. In this ethnography, Macarena Goacute;mez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile--what she calls "memory symbolics"--to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. She surveys the concentration camp turned memorial park, Villa Grimaldi, documentary films, the torture paintings of Guillermo Nuacute;ntilde;ez, and art by Chilean exiles, arguing that two…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Macarena Goacute;mez-Barrisis Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Ice and Political Heat: Cultural Memory Mediates the Past



Searching for Villa Grimaldi: Memory's Democratic Promise



Making Torture Visible: The Art of Guillermo Nunez in Chile's Transition



Documenting Absence: Ghostly Screens Unsettle the Past



Doubling 9/11: Exile Culture and Activism


Conclusion: Rivers of Memory


Notes


Bibliography


Index