Los Futuros de la Memoria En América Latina - (Literatura y Cultura) by Michael J Lazzara & Fernando A Blanco (Paperback)

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About the Book "This book points out and examines the paradigm shift experienced in recent years by the field of memory studies: an intersectional and epistemological turn that spatially, temporally and ideologically displaces the immediate (testimonial) and mediate (transgenerational) reflection of retrospective symbolization of the repressive processes that occurred during the Latin American civic-military dictatorships, proposing to work beyond the equation 'victim-perpetrator-witness'. The field is reinvigorated thanks to the re-signification of violence not as an effect but as a foundation, a phenomenon of a structural nature associated with the collapse of the democratic state in the …