Title Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / Andrew C. Rajca

Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) Series Critical insurgencies Critical insurgencies. Contents Introduction -- Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture -- The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo -- Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo -- Aesthetics, politics, and the subjects of memory and human rights : the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship Summary In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result. Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries. Dissensual Subjects offers much to those concerned with numerous interlocking fields: memory, human rights, political subjectivity, aesthetics, cultural studies, visual culture, Southern Cone studies, postdictatorship studies, and sites of memory Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Human rights -- Uruguay Human rights -- Brazil Human rights -- Argentina Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Uruguay Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Brazil Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Argentina Dictatorship -- Uruguay -- 20th century Dictatorship -- Brazil -- 20th century Dictatorship -- Argentina -- 20th century Memorials -- Uruguay Memorials -- Brazil Memorials -- Argentina Collective memory in art. Collective memory -- Uruguay Collective memory -- Brazil Collective memory -- Argentina LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Collective memory Collective memory in art Dictatorship Human rights Memorials Victims of state-sponsored terrorism Argentina Brazil Uruguay Form Electronic book ISBN 9780810136380 0810136384

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