Where Memory Dwells - Culture and State Violence in Chile

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25584-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

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 Gómez-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 Núñez, and art by Chilean exiles, arguing that two contradictory forces are at work: a desire to forget the experiences and the victims, and a powerful need to remember and memorialize them. By linking culture, nation, and identity, Gómez-Barris shows how those most affected by the legacies of the dictatorship continue to live with the presence of violence in their bodies, in their daily lives, and in the identities they pass down to younger generations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomez-Barris, Macarena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Ice and Political Heat: Cultural Memory Mediates the Past
2. Searching for Villa Grimaldi: Memory's Democratic Promise
3. Making Torture Visible: The Art of Guillermo Núñez in Chile's Transition

4. Documenting Absence: Ghostly Screens Unsettle the Past
5. Doubling 9/11: Exile Culture and Activism

Conclusion: Rivers of Memory

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Macarena Gómez-Barris is Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.