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Author Gates-Madsen, Nancy J., author

Title Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling : listening to silences in postdictatorship Argentina / Nancy J. Gates-Madsen
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical human rights
Critical human rights.
Contents Introduction: listening to silences -- Tortured silence and silenced torture in Eduardo Pavlovsky's Paso de dos -- Filling in the space of disappearance: Eric Stener Carlson's I remember Julia -- voices of the disappeared -- "The shape described by their absence": disappearance in Juan José Saer's La pesquisa -- Silencing the politics of identity: from Elsa Osorio's A veinte años, Luz to Telefe's Montecristo -- The memory of forgetting in Luisa Valenzuela's La travesía -- Fallout of the memory "boom": seeing and not-seeing the ex-ESMA in Jonathan Perel's El predio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dictatorship -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Argentina
Collective memory and literature -- Argentina
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Disappeared persons -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Human rights -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Collective memory
Collective memory and literature
Dictatorship
Disappeared persons
Human rights
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
SUBJECT Argentina -- History -- Dirty War, 1976-1983. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004019
Subject Argentina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299307639
0299307638