Remembering Pinochet's Chile On the Eve of London 1998

Name: Remembering Pinochet's Chile On the Eve of London 1998
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ISBN: 9780822338161

ISBN-10: 0822338165

ISBN-13: 9780822338161

Edition: 2006

Authors: Steve J. Stern, Walter D. Mignolo, Sonia Saldï¿½var-Hull, Irene Silverblatt

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During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a framework for understanding memory struggles in history. "A thoughtful, nuanced study of how Chileans remember the traumatic 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende and the nearly two decades of military government that followed. . . . In light of the recent revelations of American…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile


Introduction to Book One: Remembering Pinochet's Chile





Heroic Memory: Ruin into Salvation


Afterword: Childhood Holidays, Childhood Salvation





Dissident Memory: Rupture, Persecution, Awakening


Afterword: The Lore of Goodness and Remorse





Indifferent Memory: Closing the Box on the Past


Afterword: The Accident: Temptations of Silence





From Loose Memory to Emblematic Memory: Knots on the Social Body


Afterword: Memory Tomb of the Unknown Soldier


Conclusion: Memories and Silences of the Heart


Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index