UID:
almafu_9959712671402883
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.)
ISBN:
9780822397854
Series Statement:
Latin America in Translation
Content:
Repression, Exile, and Democracy, translated from the Spanish, is the first work to examine the impact of dictatorship on Uruguyan culture. Some of Uruguay's best-known poets, writers of fiction, playwrights, literary critics and social scientists participate in this multidisciplinary study, analyzing how varying cultural expressions have been affected by conditions of censorship, exile and "insilio" (internal exile), torture, and death.The first section provides a context for the volume, with its analyses of the historical, political, and social aspects of the Uruguayan experience. The following chapters explore various aspects of cultural production, including personal experiences of exile and imprisonment, popular music, censorship, literary criticism, return from exile, and the role that culture plays in redemocratization.This book's appeal extends well beyond the study of Uruguay to scholars and students of the history and culture of other Latin American nations, as well as to fields of comparative literature and politics in general.Contributors. Hugo Achugar, Alvarro Barros-Lémez, Lisa Block de Behar, Amanda Berenguer, Hiber Conteris, José Pedro Díaz, Eduardo Galeano, Edy Kaufman, Leo Masliah, Carina Perelli, Teresa Porzecanski, Juan Rial, Mauricio Rosencof, Jorge Ruffinelli, Saúl Sosonowski, Martin Weinstein, Ruben Yáñez
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Editorial Note --
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As Seen from the Other Shore: Uruguayan Culture (Repression, Exile, and Democracy) --
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I Contexts --
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The Role of the Political Parties in the Redemocratization of Uruguay --
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The Social Imaginary: Utopian Political Myths in Uruguay (Change and Permanence during and after the Dictatorship) --
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The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Uruguay: lessons for the Future --
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II Culture and Power --
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The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: The Hidden Wounds --
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Popular Music: Censorship and Repression --
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On Suffering, Song, and White Horses --
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The Repression of Uruguayan Culture: A Response to the People's Response to the Crisis --
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The Power of Memory and the Memory of Power --
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III Literature and Repression --
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The Signs on the Table --
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From Silence to Eloquence: Critical Resistance or the Ambivalent Aspects of a Discourse in Crisis --
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On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life --
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The Silences of Culture --
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Fiction and Friction in the Imaginative Narrative Written inside Uruguay --
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IV The Shores of Exile --
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Postdictatorship, Democracy, and Culture in the Uruguay of the Eighties --
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Uruguay: Redemocratization, Culture, Return from Exile (Is It Possible to Go Home Again?) --
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Uruguay, Inside and Out --
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Contributors
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822397854
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822397854
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822397854
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822397854
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