Introduction: Memory, truth, and justice in twenty-first century Latin America / Roberta Villalon -- Part I. Framing collective memory : counter-hegemonic and master narratives -- Introduction to Part I / Roberta Villalon -- Genesis, uses, and significations of the Nunca Mas report in Argentina / Emilio Crenzel -- "We're all victims" : changes in the narrative of "national reconciliation" in Argentina / Valentina Salvi ; translated by Luis Alberto Hernandez -- Irreconcilable differences : political culture and gender violence during the Chilean transition to democracy / Hillary Hiner and Maria Jose Azocar -- Part II. Defining historical periods, blame, and reparation -- Introduction to Part II / Roberta Villalon -- The memory of the national and the national as memory / Juan Poblete -- Between two pasts : dictatorships and the politics of memory in Bolivia / Francisco Adolfo Garcia Jerez and Juliane Mu˜ller ; translated by Margot Olavarria -- Colombia's gallery of memory : reexamining democracy through human rights lenses / Erika Marquez -- Part III. Cultures of trauma, healing, and justice -- Introduction to Part III / Roberta Villalon -- Trauma and the politics of memory in the Uruguayan dictatorship / Lorenzo D'Orsi -- Living with ghosts : death, exhumation, and reburial among the Maya in Guatemala / Virginia Garrard-Burnett -- Argentina's trials : new ways of writing memory / Susana Kaiser -- Part IV. Arts, media, museums, and memory -- Introduction to Part IV / Roberta Villalon -- The murals of La Victoria : imaginaries of Chilean popular resistance / Alexis Cortes ; translated by Margot Olavarria -- Choreography of a massacre : memory and performance in the Ayacucho Carnaval / Renzo Aroni Sulca ; translated by Margot Olavarria -- Reckoning with dictatorship in Brazil : the double-edged role of artistic-cultural production / Nina Schneider and Rebecca J. Atencio -- Historical memory at El Salvador's Museo de La Palabra y La Imagen / Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra -- Conclusion: Complexities, controversies and the value of collective memory and social justice / Roberta Villalon.
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"This text is the first to address the second wave of memory and justice mobilization throughout Latin America. Pairing clear explanations of concepts and debates with cases studies, the volume offers a unique opportunity for students to understand and interpret the history and politics of Latin American countries"--Provided by publisher.
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