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Haunted Objects Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship

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Full Title

Haunted Objects Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship

Author(s)

Megan Corbin

Edition
ISBN

9781469664309, 9781469664293, 9781469664316, 9798890862808, 9798890862815

Publisher

Editorial A Contracorriente

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Examining testimonial production in Southern Cone Latin America (Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay), Haunted Objects analyzes how the changed relationship between the subject and the material world influenced the way survivors narrate the stories of their detentions in the wake of the political violence of the 1970s and 80s. It explores descriptions of objects within testimonial narratives and uses these descriptions to inform an analysis of how the objects that survived the violence–items recovered by archeologists from former detention centers, the personal belongings of disappeared peoples, the prison craftwork created by political prisoners during their detention, and the bodies of the second generation children of the disappeared, all join together in memory projects in the post-dictatorship to offer “spectral testimony” about the past.