Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890136750 ISBN 13: 9780890136751

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2023

Synopsis

Marking the 50th anniversary of Chile's coup d'état, Dictators and the Disappeared is a timely look at a tumultuous period in Latin American history. Essays by Maryam Ahranjani, Nancy Morris, Michael Nutkiewicz, and Natasha Zaretsky represent a range of topics and perspectives considering political events and what it means to live and struggle today with the legacies of past dictatorships. Two of the contributors relate their personal and harrowing experiences: Alicia Partnoy was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Argentinian army, and Francisco Letelier's father was assassinated in Washington, DC following the overthrow of the democratic Allende government. Drawing largely from UNM's Southwest Research Center's Sam L. Slick Collection, the publication is illustrated with political posters, textiles, and other ephemera created as a form of political expression documenting horrors experienced from the 1970s through the 1990s.

About this title

About the Author

Russ Davidson is a professor and curator emeritus at the University of New Mexico. He is a co-curator of the Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum and is the former curator of Latin American and Iberian Collections at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004. Leslie Blaugrund Kim is a co-curator of the Dictators and the Disappeared: Democracy Lost and Restored exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. She was previously history curator at the Albuquerque Museum.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890136750
• ISBN 13: 9780890136751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Russ Davidson