Postmemories of Terror: A New Generation Copes with the Legacy of the "Dirty War" (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Postmemories Of Terror Focuses On How Young Argentineans Remember The Traumatic Events Of The Military Dictatorship (1976-83). This Fascinating Work Is Based On Oral Histories With Sixty-three Young People Who Were Too Young To Be Directly Victimized Or Politically Active During This Period. All Were Born During Or After The Terror And Possessed An Entirely Mediated Knowledge Of It. Susana Kaiser Explores How The Post-dictatorship Generation Was Reconstructing This Past From Three Main Sources: Inter-generational Dialogue, Education And The Communication Media. These Conversations Discuss Selected And Recurrent Themes Like Societal Fears And Silences, Remembering And Forgetting, Historical Explanations And Accountability. Together They Contribute To Our Understanding Of How Communities Deal With The Legacy Of Terror. Susana Kaiser. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [225]-231) And Index. 'Postmemories of Terror' focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This work is based on oral histories with 63 young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83). This fascinating work is based on oral histories with sixty-three young people who were too young to be directly victimized or politically active during this period. All were born during or after the terror and possessed an entirely mediated knowledge of it. Susana Kaiser explores how the post-dictatorship generation was reconstructing this past from three main sources: inter-generational dialogue, education and the communication media. These conversations discuss selected and recurrent themes like societal fears and silences, remembering and forgetting, historical explanations and accountability. Together they contribute to our understanding of how communities deal with the legacy of terror Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-22 Conversations about Knowledge: Why Did It Happen?....Pages 23-42 Conversations about Fear....Pages 43-63 Conversations about Silences....Pages 65-81 Conversations about Awareness and Denial....Pages 83-99 Conversations about Impunity....Pages 101-115 Conversations about Indifference....Pages 117-129 Conversations about Justice....Pages 131-146 Conversations about the Communication Media....Pages 147-168 Conversations about Representing the Horror....Pages 169-181 Conversations about Human Rights Activism....Pages 183-196 Afterword....Pages 197-199 Back Matter....Pages 201-242