Postmemories of Terror: A New Generation Copes with the Legacy of the Dirty War

by Susana Kaiser

Book Overview

Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This fascinating 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 the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403964653
• ISBN13: 9781403964656
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"