Lessie Jo Frazier

Salt in the Sand

Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of memory regimes in popular and official Chilean thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340034
• ISBN-10: 0822340038
• Artikelnr.: 22526781

Autorenporträt

Lessie Jo Frazier is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a coeditor of Gender’s Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Ethnography, History, and Memory 1
Part I. Templates
1. Memory and the Camanchacas Calientes of Chilean Nation-State Formation
21
2. Structures of Memory, Shapes of Feeling: Chronologies of Reminiscence
and Repression in Tarapaca (1890-Present) 58
Part II. Conjunctures
3. Dismantling Memory: Structuring the Forgetting of the Oficina Ramirez
(1890-1891) and La Coruna (1925) Massacres 85
4. Song of the Tragic Pampa: Structuring the Remembering of the Escuela
Santa Maria Massacre (1907) 117
5. Conjunctures of Memory: The Detention Camps in Pisagua Remembered (1948,
1973, 1990) and Forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) 158
6. The Melancholic Economy of Reconciliation: Talking with the Dead,
Mourning for the Living 190
Conclusion: Democratization and Arriving at the “End of History” in Chile
243
Notes 261
Selective Bibliography 355
Index 365