Salt in the sand : memory, violence, and the nation-state in Chile, 1890 to the present / Lessie Jo Frazier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier, Lessie Jo, 1966-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Politics, history, and culture.

Politics, history, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Chile.

Collective memory.

Political violence--Chile--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Political persecution--Chile--History--20th century.

Political persecution.

Political crimes and offenses--Chile--20th century.

Political crimes and offenses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory

Part I. Templates

Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation

Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapaca (1890-present)

Part II. Conjunctures

Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) massacres

Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907)

Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984)

The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living

Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile

Notes

Selective bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023131

9781283023139

128302313X

9780822389668

0822389665

OCLC:

220950487