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Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling :

Gates-Madsen, Nancy J.,

Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling : listening to silences in postdictatorship Argentina / Nancy J. Gates-Madsen. - 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations - Critical human rights . - Critical human rights. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.

Introduction: listening to silences -- Tortured silence and silenced torture in Eduardo Pavlovsky's Paso de dos -- Filling in the space of disappearance: Eric Stener Carlson's I remember Julia -- voices of the disappeared -- "The shape described by their absence": disappearance in Juan Jos�e Saer's La pesquisa -- Silencing the politics of identity: from Elsa Osorio's A veinte a�nos, Luz to Telefe's Montecristo -- The memory of forgetting in Luisa Valenzuela's La traves�ia -- Fallout of the memory "boom": seeing and not-seeing the ex-ESMA in Jonathan Perel's El predio.

9780299307639 0299307638


1900-1999


Dictatorship--History--Argentina--20th century.
Collective memory--Argentina.
Collective memory and literature--Argentina.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--History--Argentina--20th century.
Disappeared persons--History--Argentina--20th century.
Human rights--History--Argentina--20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.
Collective memory.
Collective memory and literature.
Dictatorship.
Disappeared persons.
Human rights.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.


Argentina--History--Dirty War, 1976-1983.
Argentina.


Electronic books.
History.

F2849.2 / .M323 2016eb

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