Salt in the Sand : Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present /

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frazier, Lessie Jo, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political violence.
Political persecution.
Political crimes and offenses.
Collective memory.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Crimes et delits politiques > Chili > 20e siecle.
Repression politique > Chili > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Violence politique > Chili > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Memoire collective > Chili.
Political crimes and offenses > Chile > 20th century.
Political persecution > Chile > History > 20th century.
Political violence > Chile > History > 20th century.
Collective memory > Chile.
Chile.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory
  • Part I. Templates
  • Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation
  • Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapacá (1890-present)
  • Part II. Conjunctures
  • Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890-1891) and La Coruña (1925) massacres
  • Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907)
  • Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984)
  • The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living
  • Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile
  • Notes
  • Selective bibliography
  • Index.

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