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Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile
Macarena Gomez-Barris
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Paperback. The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; JFC; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
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 Gomez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what she calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. She surveys the concentration camp turned memorial park, Villa Grimaldi, documentary films, the torture paintings of Guillermo Nunez, and art by Chilean exiles, arguing that two contradictory forces are ... Read more
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 Gomez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what she calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence. She surveys the concentration camp turned memorial park, Villa Grimaldi, documentary films, the torture paintings of Guillermo Nunez, and art by Chilean exiles, arguing that two contradictory forces are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520255845
SKU
V9780520255845
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About Macarena Gomez-Barris
Macarena Gomez-Barris is Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Reviews for Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile
"This book is a solid and original contribution to the expanding work on the construction of memory in Chile." The Americas