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Memory's Turn - Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil (Paperback)
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Memory's Turn - Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil (Paperback)
Series: Critical Human Rights
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After twenty-one years of military dictatorship, Brazil returned to
democratic rule in 1985. Yet over the following two decades, the
country largely ignored human rights crimes committed by state
security agents, crimes that included the torture, murder, and
disappearance of those who opposed the authoritarian regime. In
clear and engaging prose, Rebecca J. Atencio tells the story of the
slow turn to memory in Brazil, a turn that has taken place in both
politics and in cultural production. She shows how testimonial
literature, telenovelas, literary novels, theatrical plays, and
memorials have interacted with policies adopted by the Brazilian
state, often in unexpected ways. Under the right circumstances,
official and cultural forms of reckoning combine in Brazil to
produce what Atencio calls cycles of cultural memory. Novel
meanings of the past are forged, and new cultural works are
inspired, thus creating the possibility for further turns in the
cycle. The first book to analyze Brazil's reckoning with
dictatorship through both institutional and cultural means,
Memory's Turn is a rich, informative exploration of the interplay
between these different modes of memory reconstruction.
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