State Repression and the Struggles for Memory

by Elizabeth Jelin

A timely exploration of the nature of memory and its political uses

Hearing the news from South America at the turn of the millennium can be like traveling in time: here are the trials of Pinochet, the searches for "the disappeared" in Argentina, the investigation of the death of former president Goulart in Brazil, the Peace Commission in Uruguay, the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, a Truth Commission in Peru. As societies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642842
• ISBN13: 9780816642847
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"