Salt in the sand : memory, violence, and the nation-state in Chile, 1890 to the present / Lessie Jo Frazier.

Author/creator Frazier, Lessie Jo, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxvii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesPolitics, history, and culture
Politics, history, and culture. ^A503914
Contents List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ethnography, history, and memory -- Part I. Templates -- Memory and the camanchacas calientes of Chilean nation-state formation -- Structures of memory, shapes of feeling: chronologies of reminiscence and repression in Tarapacá (1890-present) -- Part II. Conjunctures -- Dismantling memory: structuring the forgetting of the Oficina Ramírez (1890-1891) and La Coruña (1925) massacres -- Song of the tragic Pampa: structuring the remembering of the Escuela Santa María Massacre (1907) -- Conjunctures of memory: the detention camps in Pisagua remembered (1948, 1973, 1990) and forgotten (1943, 1956, 1984) -- The melancholic economy of reconciliation: talking with the dead, mourning for the living -- Conclusion: democratization and arriving at the "end of history" in Chile -- Notes -- Selective bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-364) and index.
LCCN 2007004106
ISBN9780822339861 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339862 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822340034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822340038 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F3099 .S245 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold