Haunted Objects
Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship
Megan Corbin
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: Editorial A Contracorriente
Published: 03/2021
Pages: 208
Subject: History
Print ISBN: 9781469664293
eBook ISBN: 9781469664309
DESCRIPTION
Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America
(Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes
how the changed relationship between the subject and the material
world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their
detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and
80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial
narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how
the objects that survived the violence--items recovered by
archeologists from former detention centers, the personal
belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by
political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the
second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in
memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer "spectral
testimony" about the past.
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