State repression and the labors of memory
Elizabeth Jelin (Author), Judy Rein (Translator), Marcial Godoy-Anativia (Translator)
"Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for 'the disappeared' in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the Peace Commission in Uruguay, the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, a Truth Commission in Peru. As societies struggle to come to terms with the past and with the vexing questions posed by ineradicable memories, this wise book offers guidance. Combining a concrete sense of present urgency and a theoretical understanding of social, political, and historical realities, State Repression and the Labors of Memory fashions tools for thinking about and analyzing the presences, silences, and meanings of the past."-- Back cover
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2003
Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.), 18, volume 18
xix, 163 pages ; 24 cm.
9780816642830, 9780816642847, 0816642834, 0816642842
52477354
Memory in the contemporary world
What memories are we talking about?
Political struggles for memory
History and social memory
Trauma, testimony, and "truth"
Engendered memories
Transmissions, legacies, lessons
Translation of : Trabajos de la memoria