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The Politics of Postmemory : Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture /

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how this post-dictatorship generatio...

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Main Authors: Maguire, Geoffrey (Author)
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnology > Latin America.
Historiography.
Political communication.
Cultural and Media Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Memory Studies.
Global/International Culture.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51605-9
Summary: This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how this post-dictatorship generation are increasingly looking towards the past in order to disrupt the politics of the present. More broadly, this interdisciplinary study also scrutinizes the relevance of postmemory in a Latin American context, arguing that the politics of local Argentine memory practices must be taken actively into account if such a theoretical framework is to remain a productive and appropriate analytical lens. The Politics of Postmemory thus engages critically with theories of cultural memory in the Argentine, Latin American and global contexts, resulting in a timely and innovative text that will be of significant interest to students and scholars in the fields of, among others, cultural studie s, film studies, critical theory and trauma studies.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XI, 257 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9783319516059
Index Number: GN562
CLC: C912.4
Contents: 1. The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared -- 2. HIJOS de una misma historia : Identity Politics and Parody in the Kirchner Era -- 3. Hijos guerrilleros: Childhood, Militancy and Cinematic Memory -- 4. Performing Loss: Materiality and the Repertoire of Absence -- 5. Conclusion: The Politics of Postmemory.-.

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