Cynthia E. Milton is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Conflicted Memory: Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru and Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru. Michael J. Lazzara is a professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the associate vice provost of academic programs and partnerships in Global Affairs at the University of California, Davis. His books include Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile Since Pinochet, Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence, and Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Refashioning Military Men in Democracies 1 In the Name of the Father: Uncovering the Paternity of Military Memories of Dictatorship in Brazil, Rebecca Atencio 2 Fiction, Freedom, and Relativism: Human Rights in Pinochetista Memory in Post-Pinochet Chile (1998-2019), Leith Passmore 3 Heroes and Genocidaires: Retired Officers of the Argentinian Army and Their Memories of the Recent Past, Valentina Salvi 4 Perpetrator Confessions and Discourses of Impunity in Post-transitional Uruguay: The Cases of Gavazzo and TrOccoli, Mariana Achugar and Gabriela Fried Amilivia 5 Military Narratives of Heroism and Sacrifice in War Crimes Trials in Guatemala, Jo-Marie Burt PART II. Memorializing Military Memories 6 "The Hero of Joateca": The Salvadoran Military's Stubborn Memory of Domingo Monterrosa, Rachel Hatcher 7 Visualizing Soldiers as Victims: Kidnapping, and Photographic Proof of Survival in Colombia, Nicolas RodrIguez IdArraga 8 Captive to History: Military Memories and Censorship in Public Spaces, Cynthia E. Milton 9 An Unorthodox Relationship: Colombia's Public Forces and the National Center for Historical Memory (2012-2019), MarIa Emma Wills Obregon PART III. Inheriting Military Pasts 10 The Challenges and Risks of Producing "Memory with History" Within the Peruvian Army, Carla Granados and Gladys VAsquez 11 Relatives of Perpetrators and Collaborators in Chile: Implicated Subjects, Memory, and Responsibility, Michael J. Lazzara Contributors Index
"Examines how the militaries of Latin American countries confront truth commissions, memory sites, trials, and reparations. This book is indispensable for understanding the continent's ongoing 'memory wars.'" - Emilio Crenzel, author of Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of "Nunca Mas" "A timely volume. The arguments and analysis offer original perspectives on complicated processes, and the study usefully expands upon foundational sources in the field of memory studies. This excellent text is essential reading." - Nancy Gates Madsen, author of Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina