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Inhabiting memory : essays on memory and human rights in the Americas / edited by Marjorie Agosín.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--Latin America.
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--Latin America.
- Memory.
- Memory--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Human rights--Latin America.
- Human rights.
- Military government.
- History.
- Dictatorship.
- Memory--Political aspects.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Latin America.
- Dictatorship--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Military government--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, Tex : Wings Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- George Samayana's I906 proclamation that "those who do not remember the past are condemned to repair it" was a predictive indictment of the 20th century. Poet and human rights activist Marjoric Agosin has spent her life making terrain that we remember the atrocities of our recent past and honor those who fought against them. In Inhabiting Memory, she gathers essays by scholars and writers-each a witness in his or her own way-that examine the relationship between traumatic historical events and the memories created by them throughout the Americas, as well as how memory is manipulated by the powerful to justify their own actions. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Searching for Irma / June Carolyn Erlick
- An angel passes / Claudia Bernardi
- The past is present / Peter Winn
- Conversations with the dead / Marita Sturken
- Memory paths and life journeys / Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts
- The view from the hill / Laura Nakazawa
- Singing, dancing and remembering : the links between music and memory / Susana Kaiser
- Borders, memories and realities / Norma Cantu
- Out of the crying, came the roses : the peace park of Villa Grimaldi / Emma Sepúlveda
- Chile : micros, marraquetas and canciones in the epoch of globalization / Nancy Barra
- Minimal autobiography of an exiled daughter / Maria Rosa Lojo
- Beyond the boundaries of legal justice : a country called memory / Nora Strejilevich
- A new praise of folly / Julio Cortázar
- The white curse / Eduardo Galeano.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780916727529
- 0916727521
- OCLC:
- 213449501
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