Haunted objects : spectral testimony in the southern cone post-dictatorship / Megan Corbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbin, Megan, author.

Series:

Literature and cultures series.

Literature and cultures series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--Southern Cone of South America.

Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.

Prisoners as artists--Southern Cone of South America.

Prisoners as artists.

Political prisoners--Southern Cone of South America.

Political prisoners.

Personal belongings--Southern Cone of South America.

Personal belongings.

Material culture--Southern Cone of South America.

Material culture.

Disappeared persons--Southern Cone of South America.

Disappeared persons.

Collective memory--Southern Cone of South America.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Raleigh, North Carolina : Editorial A Contracorriente, [2021]

Summary:

"This book reconsiders a variety of material remainders from the past, in an effort to reveal the interpretive power that memory work in the present can gain from them: the everyday object of the detention center, the prison craftwork made as an important form of survival and resistance in the Chilean and Uruguayan detention centers, the personal items that belonged to the victim prior to his/her becoming victim, the bodies that emerge from mass graves, the bodies of the second generation that carry the material copies of the DNA of their disappeared parents, and the object that was once present at the scene of torture or detention and currently occupies the role of witness in the space of the museum"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

979-88-908628-0-8

979-88-908628-1-5

1-4696-6431-3