Fear at the edge : state terror and resistance in Latin America / edited by Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen, and Manuel Antonio Garretón.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fear in military regimes : an overview / Manuel Antonio Garreton -- Some people die of fear : fear as a political problem / Norbert Lechner -- Repression and state security / Patricia Weiss Fagen -- Victims of fear : the social psychology of repression / Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, Eugenia Weinstein -- Makers and guardians of fear : controlled terror in Uruguay / Juan Rial -- Gender, death, and resistance : facing the ethical vacuum / Jean Franco -- Resistance to fear in Chile : the experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad / Hugo Frulhling -- Fear of the state, fear of society : on the opposition protests in Chile / Javier Martinez -- Testimonial literature and the armed struggle in Brazil / Joan Dassin -- Cultures of fear, cultures of resistance : the new labor movement in Brazil / Maria Helena Moreira Alves -- Youth, politics, and dictatorship in Uruguay / Carina Perelli -- Strategies of the literary imagination / Beatriz Sarlo -- Beyond fear : forms of justice and compensation / Emilio F. Mignone -- Toward societies without fear / Juan E. Corradi.