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Book SynopsisThe 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence.
Trade Review"This book is a solid and original contribution to the expanding work on the construction of memory in Chile." The Americas
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Ice and Political Heat: Cultural Memory Mediates the Past 2. Searching for Villa Grimaldi: Memory's Democratic Promise 3. Making Torture Visible: The Art of Guillermo Nunez in Chile's Transition 4. Documenting Absence: Ghostly Screens Unsettle the Past 5. Doubling 9/11: Exile Culture and Activism Conclusion: Rivers of Memory Notes Bibliography Index
