Salt in the Sand - Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor Lessie Jo Frazier Klappentext A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought. Zusammenfassung A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Ethnography, History, and Memory 1 Part I. Templates 1. Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation 21 2. Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence and Repression in Tarapaca (1890-Present) 58 Part II. Conjunctures 3. Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez (1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) Massacres 85 4. Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela Santa Maria Massacre (1907) 117 5. Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158 6. The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead, Mourning for the Living 190 Conclusion: Democratization and Arriving at the “End of History” in Chile 243 Notes 261 Selective Bibliography 355 Index 365

Product details

• Authors: Lessie Jo Frazier
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2007
• EAN: 9780822339861
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3986-1
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous