1st Edition
Politics and the Art of Commemoration Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
By Katherine Hite
Copyright 2012
160 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between states and societies symbolically to right wrongs, to recognize loss, to assert distinct historical... Read more
1. Memorials to Struggle 2. Memorializing Spain’s Narrative of Empire 3. "The Eye that Cries": Victims, Victimizers, and the Question of Empathy 4. Searching and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Grief 5. The "Bicis" of Fernando Traverso: The Globality of Art and Memory Making
Biography
Katherine Hite is Frederick Ferris Thompson Professor of Political Science and Director of the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the author of When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chilean Left, 1968-1998, as well as several works on the politics of memory.
This book received an honorable mention in the New England Council of Latin American Studies best book category 2012.
