Searching for Memory: Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil

by Jacob Blanc

This biography of Brazilian journalist and activist Alu zio Ferreira Palmar (b. 1943) tells the remarkable story of a revolutionary who, after surviving torture as a political prisoner during his country's military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, would go on to devote his life to recovering the memory and documenting the evidence of human rights abuses in Brazil. Palmar's recounting of his life, in personal interviews with Jacob Blanc as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146968103X
• ISBN13: 9781469681030
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages