The memory of state terrorism in the Southern Cone : Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay / edited by Francesca Lessa and Vincent Druliolle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Present Pasts: Memory(ies) of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone of Latin America; 1 Remembering and Its Places in Postdictatorship Argentina; 2 The Slogan "Complete Memory": A Reactive (Re)-signification of the Memory of the Disappeared in Argentina; 3 Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Los Rubios; 4 Justice and Its Remainders: Diamela Eltit's Puño y letra; 5 Chile: Dilemmas of Memory 6 The Traces of "Postmemory" in Second-Generation Chilean and Argentinean Identities7 Private Transmission of Traumatic Memories of the Disappeared in the Context of Transitional Politics of Oblivion in Uruguay (1973-2001): "Pedagogies of Horror" among Uruguayan Families; 8 No hay que tener los ojos en la nuca: The Memory of Violence in Uruguay, 1973-2010; Afterword The Politics of "Memory" in the Long Present of the Southern Cone.

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The book both illuminates and questions the politics of memory that have been unfolding in these countries over the past three decades.