Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America

by Jo Ellen Fair, Neil L. Whitehead, Luisa Valenzuela, et al.

Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity and commodification, as well as the "never again" imperative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350424
• ISBN13: 9780822350422
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"