Charting the Emergence of a “Culture of Human Rights”: The Chilean Transition and the “Memory Question.” A Review of Steve J. Stern's <em>Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006</em> (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010)

Authors

  • Michael J. Lazzara University of California—Davis

Keywords:

memory box, Augusto Pinochet, memory question

Abstract

Steve Stern’s trilogy, The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile, has taught us that the “memory question” has been one of the most contentious issues on the Chilean politicocultural scene for nearly four decades.

Author Biography

Michael J. Lazzara, University of California—Davis

Michael J. Lazzara (Ph.D., Princeton University) es profesor asociado de Literatura y Cultura latinoamericanas en la Universidad de California, Davis. Es autor de Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Prismas de la memoria: narración y trauma en la transición chilena (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2007); Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006); Diamela Eltit: conversación en Princeton (Princeton: PLAS, 2002); Los años de silencio: conversaciones con narradores chilenos que escribieron bajo dictadura (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2002), así como artículos diversos sobre literatura y cultura latinoamericanas. Es también co-editor, con Vicky Unruh, de Telling Ruins in Latin America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Published

2011-01-01

How to Cite

Lazzara, M. J. (2011). Charting the Emergence of a “Culture of Human Rights”: The Chilean Transition and the “Memory Question.” A Review of Steve J. Stern’s <em>Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006</em> (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 8(2), 342–356. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/455

Issue

Section

Reviews: Memory and Human Rights