The Space of Remembering: Collective Memory and the Reconfiguration of Contested Space in Argentina's ESMA

• Autores: Emily E. Parsons
• Localización: 452ºF: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, ISSN-e 2013-3294, Nº. 4, 2011, págs. 83-90
• Idioma: inglés
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    Este documento explora la historia presente del desarrollo del museo de la ESMA, argumentando que la obra de memoria histórica intrínseca y conflictiva implicada se caracteriza por deseos rivales de recordar y olvidar, enraizados en el espacio físico, visible y público de la ESMA

  • English

    This paper explores the ongoing history of the ESMA museum�s development and argues that the intrinsic and conflictual collective memory work involved is characterized by competing desires to remember and to forget, rooted in the physical, visible, and public space of ESMA

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