The Politics of Postmemory: Violence and Victimhood in Contemporary Argentine Culture

by Geoffrey Maguire

Overview

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 studies, film studies, critical theory and trauma studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319516042
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared.- 2. ‘HIJOS de una misma historia’: Identity Politics and Parody in the Kirchner Era.- 3. Hijos guerrilleros: Childhood, Militancy and Cinematic Memory.- 4. Performing Loss: Materiality and the Repertoire of Absence.- 5. Conclusion: The Politics of Postmemory.-