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Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile

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Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence

ISBN: 0230622755
ISBN 13: 9780230622753
Herausgeber: M Lazzara
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xx, 197 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

<p>GREAT TOPIC: Luz Arce is a well-known figure to all Latin American scholars, famous for her experience undergoing torture during Pinochet’s rule and then her controversial betrayal of her leftist party when she later worked for the same, repressive government. This book captures her voice in a series of interviews, never before published in English. This is a strong primary text that has clear course adoption potential</p> <p>STRONG ‚CONTRIBUTORS‘: In addition to the interviews with Luz, Lazarra has also gathered a strong group of theorists, writers, and political figures to write brief ‚interventions‘ that respond to the interviews. These include Diamela Eltit, one of the most prominent Chilean avant-garde writers and cultural critics writing today; Victoria Langland, a historian teaching at the University of California, Davis; Gloria Elgueta, the president of the Londres 38 Collective, an organization is comprised of survivors of political violence and family members of the disappeared; and Jorge Arrate, a former government minister under Allende, a former socialist senator and ambassador to Argentina, and a current presidential hopeful for the socialist party</p> <p>INTERDISCIPLINARY: This book will appeal to scholars and students within Latin American studies who focus on literature, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, human rights, or politics. It is also quite appropriate for courses across disciplines that are non-Latin American in focus, particularly those in which issues of trauma, state violence, authoritarianism, memory, testimony, ethics, or autobiography are discussed</p>

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Beschreibung

Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for society at large. By revisiting the experience of Luz Arce Sandoval - a leftist militant turned collaborator with Pinochet's secret police - Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile raises urgent political and ethical questions about how nations carry out unspeakable violence in the name of "progress" and "democracy." Juxtaposing interviews, legal documents, and academic analysis, this book probes the personal and collective dimensions of torture, collaborationism, truth, justice, reconciliation, and memory, issues that resonate in Latin America and beyond.

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL LAZZARA Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, Davis, USA.

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