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Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina--a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing.
Table des matières
Chronology
Introduction: Topographies of Violence
1 El Vacío: Trauma, Narrative, and the Boundaries of Coherence
2 Dialogic Memory and the Uneven Terrain of Justice
3 Disruption and Agency in the Public Sphere
4 Sites of Memory, Erasure, and Belonging
5 Nunca Más and the Intersections of Genocide, Loss, and Survival
6 On the Limits of Witnessing, On the Boundaries of Time
Conclusion: The Liminality of Repair
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
NATASHA ZARETSKY is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University and a visiting scholar at the Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide at Human Rights, where she leads the Truth in the Americas initiative. She is the coeditor (with A. Levine) of
Landscapes of Memory and Impunity: The Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing in Jewish Argentina.
Résumé
Explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina. Turning to the lived experience of survivors and family members of victims of genocide and violence, Natasha Zaretsky argues for the ongoing significance of cultural memory as a response to trauma and injustice, as revealed through testimonies and public protests.
