Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile

by Macarena Gómez-Barris

The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an outpouring of fiction, art, film, and drama. In this ethnography, Macarena G mez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile--what she calls "memory symbolics"--to uncover...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520255844
• ISBN13: 9780520255845
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"