Eruptions of Memory: The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990-2015

Cover page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction: The Struggle for Words
Graciela Montaldo
	Against the dictatorship, the avant-garde
	Eruptions of Memory
	Bibliography
Prologue
1  Traces of Violence, Rhetoric of Consensus, and Subjective Dislocations
	Memory and disaffection
	Biographical ruptures, narrative disarticulations
	The presence of the memory of absence
2  Women in the Streets: A War of Images
	The return and revolts of the past
	Uproar in the streets
	The war of images
3  Torments and Obscenities
	The blackmail of truth: bodies and names
	Obscenity I
	Perpetual betrayal
	Obscenity II
	Conversion
	Silence, screams, and the printed word
	Memory and market
	Obscenity III
4  Confessions of a Torturer and His (Abusive) Journalistic Assemblage
	The scene of the interview
	The scene of torture
5  Coming and Going
	Reconstructing the scene
	The fissures of heroic memory
6  Architectures, Stagings, and Narratives of the Past
	Villa Grimaldi
	The Cementerio General de Santiago: memorial of the disappeared
	The Bulnes Bridge
	Londres 38
	The Museum of Memory and Human Rights
7  Two Stagings of the Memory of YES and NO
	The mimesis of memory
	Theater of antagonisms
8  Past–Present: Symbolic Displacements of the Figure of the Victim
9  Media Explosion of Memory in September 2013
	Traces and the archive: the last time …
	The bombing of La Moneda
	Strategies of memory, the power of images, and media control
	Testimonies, revelations, and anti-confessions
10  Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Military Coup … and Afterwards
	History, memory, and countermemories
	The contortions of memory
Notes
	Introduction: The Struggle for Words
	Prologue
	Chapter 1: Traces of Violence, Rhetoric of Consensus, and Subjective Dislocations
	Chapter 2: Women in the Streets: A War of Images
	Chapter 3: Torments and Obscenities
	Chapter 4: Confessions of a Torturer and His (Abusive) Journalistic Assemblage
	Chapter 5: Coming and Going
	Chapter 6: Architectures, Stagings, and Narratives of the Past
	Chapter 7: Two Stagings of the Memory of YES and NO
	Chapter 8: Past–Present: Symbolic Displacements of the Figure of the Victim
	Chapter 9: Media Explosion of Memory in September 2013
	Chapter 10: Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Military Coup … and Afterwards
Bibliography
Index
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