"Accounting for Violence" offers bold new perspectives on the
politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the
humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the
political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico,
Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule
in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of
authenticity and commodification, as well as the "never again"
imperative implicit in memory goods and memorial sites. They
describe how bookstores, cinemas, theaters, the music industry, and
television shows (and their commercial sponsors) trade in
testimonial and fictional accounts of the authoritarian past; how
tourist itineraries have come to include trauma sites and memorial
museums; and how memory studies has emerged as a distinct academic
field profiting from its own journals, conferences, book series,
and courses. The memory market, described in terms of goods, sites,
producers, marketers, consumers, and patrons, presents a
paradoxical situation. On the one hand, commodifying memory
potentially cheapens it. On the other hand, too little public
exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such
awareness may help to prevent their recurring.
Contributors. Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie
Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy
Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson,
Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra,
Maria Eugenia Ulfe
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