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Between 1976 and 1983, during a period of brutal military
dictatorship, armed forces in Argentina abducted 30,000 citizens.
These victims were tortured and killed, never to be seen again.
Although the history of "los desaparecidos," "the disappeared," has
become widely known, the stories of the Argentines who miraculously
survived their imprisonment and torture are not well understood.
"The Reappeared" is the first in-depth study of an officially
sanctioned group of Argentine former political prisoners, the
Association of Former Political Prisoners of Cordoba, which
organized in 2007. Using ethnographic methods, anthropologist
Rebekah Park explains the experiences of these survivors of state
terrorism and in the process raises challenging questions about how
societies define victimhood, what should count as a human rights
abuse, and what purpose memorial museums actually serve. The men
and women who reappeared were often ostracized by those who thought
they must have been collaborators to have survived imprisonment,
but their actual stories are much more complex. Park explains why
the political prisoners waited nearly three decades before forming
their own organization and offers rare insights into what motivates
them to recall their memories of solidarity and resistance during
the dictatorial past, even as they suffer from the long-term
effects of torture and imprisonment. "The Reappeared" challenges
readers to rethink the judicial and legislative aftermath of
genocide and forces them to consider how much reparation is
actually needed to compensate for unimaginable--and
lifelong--suffering.
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