Citizens of memory : affect, representation, and human rights in postdictatorship Argentina / Silvia R. Tandeciarz.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tandeciarz, Silvia Roxana, author.

Series:

• Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
• The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Argentine literature--20th century--History and criticism.
• Argentine literature.
• Collective memory.
• Argentina--History--1983-2002.
• Argentina.
• History.
• Argentina--Social conditions--1983-.
• Social conditions.
• Collective memory--Argentina.

Genre:

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 297 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in postdictatorship 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) and 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. Understanding recollection as a practice that lends coherence to disparate forces, energies, and affects, Silvia Tandeciarz argues that these interventions 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Making Space for Recollection 1
• 2 Mnemonic Hauntings: Photography as Art of the Missing 67
• 3 Archaeologies of Identity: The After Generation's Archival Returns 109
• 4 Purgatorio as Memoryscape: Literature, Exile, and the Project of Transnational Justice 175
• 5 Affective Transmissions: Toward a Pedagogy of Human Rights 211.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.
• Print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781611488456
• 1611488451

OCLC:

1015240097