Postmemories of terror : a new generation copes with the legacy of the "Dirty War" / Susana Kaiser.
Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born durin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2005.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in oral history.
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| Summary: | Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediated knowledge of it. Susana Kaiser explores how the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing this past from three main sources: inter-generational dialogue, education, and the communication media. These conversations discuss selected and recurrent themes like societal fears and silences, remembering and forgetting, historical explanations, and accountability. Together they contribute to our understanding of how communities deal with the legacy of terror. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1403980225 9781403980229 9781403964649 1403964645 9781403964656 1403964653 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |