Memory's Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014
Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award for best book on a Latin American subject (2014) “An extremely well-written, engaging, and interesting contribution to the scholarship on postdictatorial memory construction in Latin America. Atencio allows readers to see the multiple and layered ways in which postconflict societies construct and contest the meanings of the past.”—Michael J. Lazzara, author of Chile in Transition “A major book that takes the field of human rights in a new direction. Atencio enables us to see a powerful dialectic of culture and institutions and its relevance for understanding human rights.”—Steve J. Stern, series editor “Atencio’s revelation of cultural and political synergies highlights the ambiguities inherent in recovering truths from the past, for memory and truth are not always the same thing.” --Choice Paperback and Kindle edition available. For a preview, click here. |