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The Politics of Postmemory

Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture

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Authors:
  1. Geoffrey Maguire

    1. Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  • Engages with the wealth of critical material that has been published on Argentine cultural memory over the past two decades
  • Focuses exclusively on the work of the post-dictatorship generation as a distinct area of study
  • Argues for a recontextualisation of Western-focused theories of cultural memory within contemporary Latin America
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Second Generation in Contemporary Argentina

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 33-80

  4. ‘HIJOS de una misma historia’: Identity Politics and Parody in the Kirchner Era

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 81-132

  5. Hijos guerrilleros: Childhood Militancy and Cinematic Memory

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 133-182

  6. Performing Loss: Materiality and the Repertoire of Absence

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 183-240

  7. Conclusion: The Politics of Postmemory

    • Geoffrey Maguire
    Pages 241-251

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 253-257
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About this book

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how this post-dictatorship generation are increasingly looking towards the past in order to disrupt the politics of the present. More broadly, this interdisciplinary study also scrutinizes the relevance of postmemory in a Latin American context, arguing that the politics of local Argentine memory practices must be taken actively into account if such a theoretical framework is to remain a productive and appropriate analytical lens. The Politics of Postmemory thus engages critically with theories of cultural memory in the Argentine, Latin American and global contexts, resulting in a timely and innovative text that will be of significant interest to students and scholars in the fields of, among others, cultural studie
s, film studies, critical theory and trauma studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Geoffrey Maguire

About the author

Dr Geoffrey Maguire is a Junior Research Fellow in Latin American Studies at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. 

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