Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America [Hardcover]

Ksenija Bilbija (Editor), Leigh A. Payne (Editor), Neil L. Whitehead (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 25 2011 | ISBN-10: 0822350254 | ISBN-13: 978-0822350255

Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity, commodification, and the "never again" imperative implicit in memory goods and memorial sites. They describe how bookstores, cinemas, theatres, the music industry, and television shows (and their commercial sponsors) trade in testimonial and fictional accounts of the authoritarian past; how tourist itineraries have come to include trauma sites and memorial museums; and how memory studies has emerged as a distinct academic field profiting from its own journals, conferences, book series, and courses. The memory market, described in terms of goods, sites, producers, marketers, consumers, and patrons, presents a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, commodifying memory potentially cheapens it. On the other hand, too little public exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such awareness may help to prevent their recurrence. Contributors: Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson, Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, Jose Raman Ruisanchez Serra, Maria Eugenia Ulfe

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Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press (July 25 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822350254
ISBN-13: 978-0822350255
Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 24.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 726 g

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"Accounting for Violence is a path-breaking book. Its topic is important, fascinating, and new to Latin American studies, where scholarship on memory has tended to concentrate on the vexations of acknowledging past violence; the travails of inscribing such events in legal, political, and social institutions; and, more recently, issues related to public space. Encompassing literature, history, advertising, cultural studies, philosophy, fashion, and television, Accounting for Violence ushers in a new wave of post-trauma scholarship." Marguerite Feitlowitz, author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture "This is an innovative, remarkable exploration of themes related to memory in post-dictatorial Latin American societies. Incorporating the best scholarship on the topic, the contributors to Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne's volume reframe memory within a market economy where remembrances are advertised, appropriated, capitalized. This is a truly interdisciplinary work, spanning studies of literature, film, testimonies, and the urban space. It will certainly be a reference in the field for years to come." Idelber Avelar, author of The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning

About the Author

Ksenija Bilbija is Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin American studies at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.