Reckoning with Pinochet
The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2010
584 pages
978-0-8223-9177-7 (ISBN)
Description
The first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochets legacy of human rights atrocities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
29 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps
29 photographs, 1 table, 2 maps
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5,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9177-7 (9780822391777)
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Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of books including Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988, winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize (the Conference on Latin American History), and Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. Both books received Honorable Mention, Bryce Wood Book Award (Latin American Studies Association). Both are also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments xiii
Maps xviii
Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile xxi
Introduction to Book Three: Reckoning with Pinochet 1
1. The Perils of Truth: Opening the Memory Box, 1989-1990 13
Afterword: "My Dear President" 61
2. Toward Memory Impasse? The Truth Commission Moment, 1990-1991 65
Afterword: The Futility of History? 99
3. The Circle of Truth, Justice, and Force, 1990-1994 106
Afterword: The Sound of Tick-Tock 136
4. Between Prudence and Convulsion: Memory, Triumphalism, and Disenchantment, 1994-1997 143
Afterword: The Joys of "Not Too Much" 200
5. The Turn: Consequences of 1998 211
Afterword: Covering History with History? The Making of Silence 265
6. Memory as Unfinished Work: New Reckonings, 2002-2006 273
Afterword: Unsettled Moments: The Struggle for Londres 38 314
7. Reframing Democratic Transition: Toward the Memory Paradox of Bachelet's Chile 324
Afterword: The Curious Burial of Augusto Pinochet 348
Conclusion: Reckoning with Pinochet 357
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources 387
Notes 389
Essay on Sources 503
Index 525
Maps xviii
Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile xxi
Introduction to Book Three: Reckoning with Pinochet 1
1. The Perils of Truth: Opening the Memory Box, 1989-1990 13
Afterword: "My Dear President" 61
2. Toward Memory Impasse? The Truth Commission Moment, 1990-1991 65
Afterword: The Futility of History? 99
3. The Circle of Truth, Justice, and Force, 1990-1994 106
Afterword: The Sound of Tick-Tock 136
4. Between Prudence and Convulsion: Memory, Triumphalism, and Disenchantment, 1994-1997 143
Afterword: The Joys of "Not Too Much" 200
5. The Turn: Consequences of 1998 211
Afterword: Covering History with History? The Making of Silence 265
6. Memory as Unfinished Work: New Reckonings, 2002-2006 273
Afterword: Unsettled Moments: The Struggle for Londres 38 314
7. Reframing Democratic Transition: Toward the Memory Paradox of Bachelet's Chile 324
Afterword: The Curious Burial of Augusto Pinochet 348
Conclusion: Reckoning with Pinochet 357
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources 387
Notes 389
Essay on Sources 503
Index 525
