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Chile in Transition - The Poetics and Politics of Memory (Hardcover)
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Chile in Transition - The Poetics and Politics of Memory (Hardcover)
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Lazzara examines the political, ethical, and aesthetic implications
of the diverse narrative forms Chilean artists have used to
represent the memory of political violence under the Pinochet
regime. By studying multiple ""lenses of memory"" through which
truths about the past have been constructed, he seeks to expose the
complex intersections among trauma, subjectivity, and literary
genres, and to question the nature of trauma's ""artistic""
rendering. Drawing on current theorizations about memory, human
rights, and trauma, Lazzara analyzes a broad body of written,
visual, and oral texts produced during Chile's democratic
transition as representations of a set of poetics searching to
connect politics and memory, achieve personal reconciliation, or
depict the ""unspeakable"" personal and collective consequences of
torture and disappearance. In so doing, he sets the ""politics of
consensus and reconciliation"" against alternative narratives that
offer an ethical counterpoint to ""forgetting and looking toward
the future"" and argues that perhaps only those works that resist
hasty narrative resolution to the past can stand up to the ethical
and epistemological challenges facing postdictatorial societies
still struggling to come to terms with their history. Grounded in
Lazzara's firsthand knowledge of the post-Pinochet period and its
cultural production, ""Chile in Transition"" offers groundbreaking
connections and perspectives that set this period in the context of
other postauthoritarian societies dealing with contested memories
and conflicting memorializing practices, most notably with
Holocaust studies.
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