Narrow but endlessly deep : the struggle for memoralisation in Chile since the transition to democracy

Narrow but endlessly deep the struggle for memoralisation in Chile since the transition to democracy

On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven si...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Read, Peter, author (author), Wyndham, Marivic, author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Acton, Australia : ANU Press 2016
[2016]
Series:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
Subjects:
Collective memory > Chile.
Chile > Politics and government > 1973-1988.
Chile > Politics and government > 1988-
Chile > History > 1988-
chile
public history
memorialisation
Augusto Pinochet
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional
Human rights
Torture
Villa Grimaldi
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439560706719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: narrow but endlessly deep
  • 2. Victor Jara, the State University of Technology and the Victor Jara Stadium
  • 3. From state terror to state error: Patio 29, General Cemetery, Santiago
  • 4. Carved cherubs frolicking in a sunny stream: the National Stadium
  • 5. Last stand of the MIR: Londres 38
  • 6. The chosen one: 1367 José Domingo Cañas
  • 7. A garden of horror or a park of peace: Villa Grimaldi
  • 8. A memorial destroyed: Loyola, Quinta Normal
  • 9. The memorials today and the advance of the state.

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