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1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- The politics of the past and the fragmentary present : locating memory in Spain and Latin America / Aida Diaz de Leon -- Part II. From the repertoire to the archive : memory in Chile after Pinochet -- Performing memory and democracy in Chile / Liliana Trevizan -- Memory in Chile : a conversation on democracy : interview [of] Ricardo Brodsky Baudet, executive director of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile (December 3, 2013) / Oscar D. Sarmiento and Liliana Trevizan -- Part III. Literature as media of memory in Spain and Latin America -- Everything is coming to light : re-appearance of lost history in Carmen Martin-Gaite's El Cuarto de Atras / Marcella Salvi -- Exile and erasure : a poetic reconstruction of the Spanish past in Antonio Crespo Massieu's Elegia en Portbou / Marina Llorente -- Translation as a means of preserving historical memory in Spain, Nicaragua, and Chile / Steven F. White -- Narrativa e ilusion : Argentine historical memory in Una Sombra Ya Pronto Seras, by Osvaldo Soriano / Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn -- Part IV. The struggles of memory in the global market : Venezuela and Mexico -- The children of 1989 : resurrecting the Venezuelan dead / George Ciccariello-Maher -- Depoliticization, historical memory, and resistance to obliviousness : the case of feminicide and the Cotton Field Memorial in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / Martha I. Chew Sanchez and Alfredo Limas Hernandez -- Part V. The palimpsest of memory : reconstructing race, culture, and religion from colonial times to the present in Peru, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic -- Mystic ringing of stone bells : a case of annihilation of cultural memory in Peru / Beatriz Carolina Pena -- The memory of Black womanhood in Mexico : la Mulata de Cordoba / Selfa A. Chew -- Casting traitors and villains : the historiographical memory of the 1605 depopulations of Hispaniola / Juan Jose Ponce-Vazquez. |
| Summary |
"Informed by the interdisciplinary methodology of cultural studies, Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America is a significant addition to the growing corpus of studies in historical memory, particularly those reflecting issues concerning processes of historical memory in Hispanic societies. This collection is one of the few that covers a heterogeneous body of cultural products and social movements emerging in contemporary Spain and in the Latin American context spanning the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to the present"--Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Memory -- Political aspects -- Spain.
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Memory -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
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Political atrocities -- Spain -- Historiography.
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Political atrocities -- Latin America -- Historiography.
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Government, Resistance to -- Spain -- Historiography.
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Government, Resistance to -- Latin America -- Historiography.
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Spain -- Politics and government -- Historiography.
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Latin America -- Politics and government -- Historiography.
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Spain -- Intellectual life.
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Latin America -- Intellectual life.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Llorente, Marina, editor.
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Salvi, Marcella, 1969- editor.
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Diaz de Leon, Aida, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sites of memory in Spain and Latin America : trauma, politics, and resistance. Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2015] |
| ISBN |
9781498507783 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9781498507806 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9781498507790 (e-book) |
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