Haunted Objects - Corbin, Megan
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"This book reconsiders a variety of material remainders from the past, in an effort to reveal the interpretive power that memory work in the present can gain from them: the everyday object of the detention center, the prison craftwork made as an important form of survival and resistance in the Chilean and Uruguayan detention centers, the personal items that belonged to the victim prior to his/her becoming victim, the bodies that emerge from mass graves, the bodies of the second generation that carry the material copies of the DNA of their disappeared parents, and the object that was once…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
"This book reconsiders a variety of material remainders from the past, in an effort to reveal the interpretive power that memory work in the present can gain from them: the everyday object of the detention center, the prison craftwork made as an important form of survival and resistance in the Chilean and Uruguayan detention centers, the personal items that belonged to the victim prior to his/her becoming victim, the bodies that emerge from mass graves, the bodies of the second generation that carry the material copies of the DNA of their disappeared parents, and the object that was once present at the scene of torture or detention and currently occupies the role of witness in the space of the museum"--
Autorenporträt
Megan Corbin is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her primary areas of research center around the post-dictatorship periods of Southern Cone Latin America and examine the ways in which individuals, groups, and society are working to fill gaps in historical memory through literary and artistic practices.