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Citizens of Memory - Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina (Hardcover)
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Citizens of Memory - Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina (Hardcover)
Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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Citizens of Memory explores efforts at recollection in
post-dictatorship Argentina and the hoped-for futures they set in
motion. The material, visual, narrative, and pedagogical
interventions it analyzes address the dark years of state
repression (1976-1983) while engaging ongoing debates about how
this traumatic past should be transmitted to future generations.
Two theoretical principles structure the book's approach to
cultural recall: the first follows from an understanding of memory
as a social construct that is always as much about the past as it
is of the present; the second from the observation that what
distinguishes memory from history is affect. These principles guide
the study of iconic sites of memory in the city of Buenos Aires;
photographic essays about the missing and the dictatorship's
legacies of violence; documentary films by children of the
disappeared that challenge hegemonic representations of seventies'
militancy; a novel of exile that moves recollection across national
boundaries; and a human rights education program focused on memory.
Understanding recollection as a practice that lends coherence to
disparate forces, energies, and affects, the book approaches these
spatial, visual, and scripted registers as impassioned narratives
that catalyze a new attentiveness within those they hail. It
suggests, moreover, that by inciting deep reflection and an active
engagement with the legacies of state violence, interventions like
these can help advance the cause of transitional justice and
contribute to the development of new political subjectivities
invested in the construction of less violent futures.
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