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Citizens of Memory
Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina
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2017
Summary
Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how this traumatic past should be transmitted to future generations. Two theoretical principles structure the book’s approach to cultural recall: the first follows from an understanding of memory as a social construct that is always as much about the past as it is of the present; the second from the observation that what distinguishes memory from history is affect. These principles guide the study of iconic sites of memory in the city of Buenos Aires; photographic essays about the missing and the dictatorship’s legacies of violence; documentary films by children of the disappeared that challenge hegemonic representations of seventies’ militancy; a novel of exile that moves recollection across national boundaries; and a human rights education program focused on memory. Understanding recollection as a practice that lends coherence to disparate forces, energies, and affects, the book approaches these spatial, visual, and scripted registers as impassioned narratives that catalyze a new attentiveness within those they hail. It suggests, moreover, that by inciting deep reflection and an active engagement with the legacies of state violence, interventions like these can help advance the cause of transitional justice and contribute to the development of new political subjectivities invested in the construction of less violent futures.
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2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-845-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-846-3
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
298
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A Note on Translations No access
Introduction No access
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Chapter One. Making Space for Recollection No access Pages 1 - 66
Chapter Two. Mnemonic Hauntings: Photography as Art of the Missing No access Pages 67 - F
Chapter Three. Archaeologies of Identity: The After Generation’s Archival Returns No access Pages 109 - 174
Chapter Four. Purgatorio as Memoryscape: Literature, Exile, and the Project of Transnational Justice No access Pages 175 - 210
Chapter Five. Affective Transmissions: Toward a Pedagogy of Human Rights No access Pages 211 - 268
