MemoSur/MemoSouth: Memory, Commemoration and Trauma in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Chile
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 5149372
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Critical, Cultural and Communications Press
- ISBN
- 9781905510504
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Additional information
- Sharman directed this 21-essay volume, the principal output of the three-year mobility project ‘Memosur—A Lesson for Europe: Memory, Trauma and Reconciliation in Chile and Argentina’ (2014–2017), supported by an award from Marie Curie Actions—the European Commission. He conceived the volume’s shape (assisted by Sosa), single-authored the 9,300-word introduction and one 5,600-word article, substantially revised the translations, and did 95% of the editorial and advisory work. The volume includes original photographs.
‘Memosur’ (PI: Violi, Bologna) involved four institutions – Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna (Italy), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile), and University of Nottingham (UK) – and entailed exchange visits by 21 academics and PGRs, plus a final conference (50 delegates).
The volume contains essays by 13 academics, five postgraduates, a postdoctoral fellow, a retired British Army officer (Commander of the 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles: Falklands/Malvinas War), and a former Argentine Minister of Education. The five sections bring together specialists in semiotics, sociosemiotics, the performing arts, and post-conflict (Nottingham) to examine: the politics of memory in the Southern Cone; the former detention centres; representations of the Falklands/Malvinas War; the theatre of the (post-)dictatorship; and visual and literary meditations on (post-)dictatorship. Sharman’s ‘Introduction’ explores the political trajectories of Argentina and Chile, their different political transitions back to democracy in the 1980s, and the shifting intellectual analyses of the respective dictatorships. His article uses Argentine documentary film to question the adequacy of Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory for a Latin American context. It develops a critique of the idea that there is an ideological and affective generational divide between dictatorship and post-dictatorship cultural and intellectual production. 21 articles + Introduction; Pp. 425, 120k words
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