Revisitar la violencia, recuperar el testimonio: Encuentros y disyuntivas de la memoria en la historia reciente de América Latina

  • Javier Mocarquer Providence College
Keywords Testimonios, violence in Latin America
Keywords Testimonios, violence in Latin America

Abstract

Review of Eugenia Allier-Montaño and Emilio Crenzel, eds. The Struggle for Memory in Latin America: Recent History and Political Violence. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Author Biography

Javier Mocarquer, Providence College
Javier Mocarquer is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Providence College. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Notre Dame (2015) with a specialization in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, especially from the Southern Cone and Brazil. He also earned an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College (2010), a magíster en Filología Hispánica from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain, 2009), and a licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2007). His teaching and research interests cover the tensions between aesthetics and politics, cultural, gender studies, and critical theory.
Published
2016-02-06
Section
Reviews: Violence in Latin America