Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile

by Macarena Gómez-Barris

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The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an outpouring of fiction, art, film, and drama. In this ethnography, Macarena G mez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile--what she calls "memory symbolics"--to uncover...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520255844

ISBN13:9780520255845

Release Date:November 2008

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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