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Repression, exile, and democracy : Uruguayan culture /

"Most of the essays in this book were originally presented at a 1986 conference on Uruguay; however, several of the chapters were updated immediately prior to publication. Overall, work serves as excellent document on prevailing cultural perspectives in initial years of the return to democracy....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sosnowski, Saúl (Editor), Popkin, Louise B. (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Español
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editorial Note
  • As Seen from the Other Shore: Uruguayan Culture (Repression, Exile, and Democracy)
  • I Contexts
  • The Role of the Political Parties in the Redemocratization of Uruguay
  • The Social Imaginary: Utopian Political Myths in Uruguay (Change and Permanence during and after the Dictatorship)
  • The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Uruguay: lessons for the Future
  • II Culture and Power
  • The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: The Hidden Wounds
  • Popular Music: Censorship and Repression
  • On Suffering, Song, and White Horses
  • The Repression of Uruguayan Culture: A Response to the People's Response to the Crisis
  • The Power of Memory and the Memory of Power
  • III Literature and Repression
  • The Signs on the Table
  • From Silence to Eloquence: Critical Resistance or the Ambivalent Aspects of a Discourse in Crisis
  • On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life
  • The Silences of Culture
  • Fiction and Friction in the Imaginative Narrative Written inside Uruguay
  • IV The Shores of Exile
  • Postdictatorship, Democracy, and Culture in the Uruguay of the Eighties
  • Uruguay: Redemocratization, Culture, Return from Exile (Is It Possible to Go Home Again?)
  • Uruguay, Inside and Out
  • Contributors