Postmemories of Terror: A New Generation Copes with the Legacy of the "Dirty War" (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) - Softcover

Kaiser, S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403964653 ISBN 13: 9781403964656

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Postmemories of Terror Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediated knowledge of it. Susana Kaiser explores how... Full description

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Postmemories of Terror focuses on how sixty-three young Argentineans, too young to have been directly affected, remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediat

Review:

"Susana has given us an extraordinarily lucid and poignant work. Postmemories of Terror is a masterful exploration into the depth of evil as well as hope. Kaiser creates a narrative of voices that dwells in Argentina's dark night of terror and silence. This is a work of solid achievement and human solidarity." - Marjorie Agosin, Wellesley College

"Well-researched and compelling, Postmemories of Terror is a significant contribution to the growing literature on the role of memory and identity in societies emerging from periods of mass violence." - Eric Stover, Director, Human Rights Center and author of The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1403964653
• ISBN 13: 9781403964656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254