Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation

By Rina Benmayor, Pilar Dominguez Prats, María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez

Subjects: Oral history, Memory, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Historiography, Social aspects, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America

Description: "Eleven new essays originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, present diverse scholarly approaches to oral narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. The essays explore individual and collective memories of conflictive national pasts, the body and emotional memory, subjectivity in re/framing social identities, and visual and performative re/presentations of memory"--