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Eruptions of Memory, The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990-2015 (Hardcover)
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Eruptions of Memory, The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990-2015 (Hardcover)
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In this important book, one of Latin America's foremost critical
theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the
social and political trauma of Pinochet's Chile. Focusing on the
period 1990-2015, Nelly Richard denounces the politics and
aesthetics of forgetting that have underpinned both the protracted
transition out of dictatorship and the denial of justice to its
survivors and victims. What are the perils and social costs of a
culture of forgetting? What forms do memories of injustice take in
newly formed democracies? How might a history of violence and an
ethics of reparation be reconciled in post-autocratic societies? In
addressing these and other questions, Richard exposes the abuses of
the past and the present while also attending to the residues of
memory that are manifested in street protests, literature, and the
media, and in artistic practices from architecture and urban design
to installation and film. While cultural artifacts can be powerful
devices for resistance and critique, Richard argues that they can
also be complicit in reproducing and collaborating with forms of
institutional and political oblivion. Both within Chile and beyond,
Richard offers a trenchant critique of how authoritarian regimes
and neoliberal states whittle away at memory's critical capacity.
At a time of seismic political realignments in Latin America and
internationally, Eruptions of Memory makes a powerful case for the
ethical, political, and aesthetic value of memory.
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