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activism
atrocity
Author_Macarena Gomez-Barris
authoritarianism
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chile
chilean culture
collective memory
coup
democracy
dictator
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exile
fascism
government
historical memory
history
human rights
junta
latin america
latino america
memory
nationalism
nonfiction
pinochet
political prisoner
political theory
political transition
political violence
politics
power
social change
social injustice
state terror
state violence
trauma
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255845
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Gomez-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 Nunez, and art by Chilean exiles, arguing that two contradictory forces are at work: a desire to forget the experiences and the victims, and a powerful need to remember and memorialize them. By linking culture, nation, and identity, Gomez-Barris shows how those most affected by the legacies of the dictatorship continue to live with the presence of violence in their bodies, in their daily lives, and in the identities they pass down to younger generations.
Macarena Gomez-Barris is Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
