Argentina S Dirty War

Author : James P. Brennan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520970076

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Argentina's Missing Bones by James P. Brennan Pdf

Argentina’s Missing Bones is the first comprehensive English-language work of historical scholarship on the 1976–83 military dictatorship and Argentina’s notorious experience with state terrorism during the so-called dirty war. It examines this history in a single but crucial place: Córdoba, Argentina’s second largest city. A site of thunderous working-class and student protest prior to the dictatorship, it later became a place where state terrorism was particularly cruel. Considering the legacy of this violent period, James P. Brennan examines the role of the state in constructing a public memory of the violence and in holding those responsible accountable through the most extensive trials for crimes against humanity to take place anywhere in Latin America.

Author : Diana Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0822318687

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Disappearing Acts by Diana Taylor Pdf

Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.

Author : Gustavo Morello
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190234270

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The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War by Gustavo Morello Pdf

Drawing on interviews with victims of forced disappearance, documents from the state and the Church, as well as field work and participant observation, The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War explores how the Argentine government deployed the legitimating discourse of Catholicism to justify terrorism in the case of La Salette missionaries. It examines how the official Catholic hierarchy rationalized their silence, and how the victims understood their Catholic faith in such a context --

Author : Iain Guest
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812213130

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Behind the Disappearances by Iain Guest Pdf

Drawing on confidential Argentinian documents and memoranda, Behind the Disappearances documents a seven-year diplomatic war by one of the twentieth century's most brutal regimes. It relates how, starting in 1976, Argentina's military government tried to cripple the UN's human rights machinery in an effort to prevent international condemnation of its policy of disappearances. Initially this attempt succeeded, but in 1980—with encouragement from the Carter administration—UN officials regained the initiative and created a special working group on disappearances that rejuvenated the UN's efforts. This progress was abruptly halted in 1981 when the Reagan administration sided with the Argentinian regime. The result, claims the author, not only undercut the UN's actions against disappearances but also weakened its chances of playing a positive role in aiding Latin America's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Author : David Cox
Publisher : EveningPostBooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 0981873502

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Dirty Secrets, Dirty War by David Cox Pdf

From 1976-1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared in Argentina. They were victims of the "Dirty War" - a brutal campaign designed by the government to root out possible subversives. Robert J. Cox, editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, did what few others were willing to do - he told the truth about what was happening every day in his newspaper. He challenged those in power - asking questions and demanding answers.

Author : Donald C. Hodges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 0292776861

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Argentina's Dirty War by Donald C. Hodges Pdf

Author : Marguerite Feitlowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199840377

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A Lexicon of Terror by Marguerite Feitlowitz Pdf

"We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon of Terror, Marguerite Feitlowitz fully exposes the nightmare of sadism, paranoia, and deception the military dictatorship unleashed on the Argentine people, a nightmare that would claim over 30,000 civilians from 1976 to 1983 and whose leaders were recently issued warrants by a Spanish court for the crime of genocide. Feitlowitz explores the perversion of language under state terrorism, both as it's used to conceal and confuse ("The Parliament must be disbanded to rejuvenate democracy") and to domesticate torture and murder. Thus, citizens kidnapped and held in secret concentration camps were "disappeared"; torture was referred to as "intensive therapy"; prisoners thrown alive from airplanes over the ocean were called "fish food." Based on six years of research and moving interviews with peasants, intellectuals, activists, and bystanders, A Lexicon of Terror examines the full impact of this catastrophic period from its inception to the present, in which former torturers, having been pardoned and released from prison, live side by side with those they tortured. Passionately written and impossible to put down, Feitlowitz shows us both the horror of the war and the heroism of those who resisted and survived--their courage, their endurance, their eloquent refusal to be dehumanized in the face of torments even Dante could not have imagined.

Author : Gloria Lisé
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558616479

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Departing at Dawn by Gloria Lisé Pdf

“[A] quiet, powerful novel” of a young woman caught in the chaos of Argentina in the mid-1970s, when speaking against the government could mean death (Publishers Weekly). March 23, 1976. Berta watches horrified as her lover, a union organizer named Atilio, is thrown from a window to his death by soldiers. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’état and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. And even though she was never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a list to be “disappeared.” Fleeing to relatives in the countryside, she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts music from an old record player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. But soon enough, Berta realizes she must run even further to save her life—and those she has come to love. With a prose that is light yet penetrating, Gloria Lisé has written “a beautifully simple, poetic story of solidarity and love, with memorable characters painted in the tender strokes of a watercolor” (Luisa Valenzuela, author of Black Novel with Argentines).

Author : Liliana Heker
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926845494

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The End of the Story by Liliana Heker Pdf

"Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges ... her fiction chronicles the small tragedies that take place within the vast tragedy of our history. A universal and indispensable writer." - Alberto Manguel When Diana Glass witnesses Leonora's abduction from a street in Buenos Aires, she despairs that her friend has joined the ranks of los desaparaecidos, the missing ones. She begins to write the story of their friendship, but certain memories, details, and whispered allegations about Leonora's fate consistently intrude. Leonora was born to drink life down to the bottom of the glass. But, Diana wonders, is that necessarily a virtue? Gripping, intelligent, and intricately structured, Liliana Heker's novel of an unstable revolutionary pasionaria has inflamed readers across Latin America. The End of the Story is a shocking study of the pyschology of torture, and a tragic portrait of Argentina's Dirty War.

Author : Federico Finchelstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199396504

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The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War by Federico Finchelstein Pdf

Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s and early 1980s. How and why did all of these regimes emerge in a country that was "born liberal"? Why did these authoritarian traits first emerge in Argentina under the shadow of fascism? In this book, Federico Finchelstein tells the history of modern Argentina as seen from the perspective of political violence and ideology. He focuses on the theory and practice of the fascist idea in Argentine political culture throughout the twentieth century, analyzing the connections between fascist theory and the Holocaust, antisemitism, and the military junta's practices of torture and state violence, with its networks of concentration camps and extermination. The book demonstrates how the state's war against its citizens was rooted in fascist ideology, explaining the Argentine variant of fascism, formed by nacionalistas, and its links with European fascism and Catholicism. It particularly emphasizes the genocidal dimensions of the persecution of Argentine Jewish victims. The destruction of the rule of law and military state terror during the Dirty War, Finchelstein shows, was the product of many political and ideological reformulations and personifications of fascism. The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War provides a genealogy of state-sanctioned terror, revealing fascism as central to Argentina's political culture and its violent twentieth century.

Author : Sebastián Carassai
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376576

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The Argentine Silent Majority by Sebastián Carassai Pdf

In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastián Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics in Argentina from the end of the 1960s. By considering the memories and ideologies of middle-class Argentines who did not get involved in political struggles, he expands thinking about the era to the larger society that activists and direct victims of state terror were part of and claimed to represent. Carassai conducted interviews with 200 people, mostly middle-class non-activists, but also journalists, politicians, scholars, and artists who were politically active during the 1970s. To account for local differences, he interviewed people from three sites: Buenos Aires; Tucumán, a provincial capital rocked by political turbulence; and Correa, a small town which did not experience great upheaval. He showed the middle-class non-activists a documentary featuring images and audio of popular culture and events from the 1970s. In the end Carassai concludes that, during the years of la violencia, members of the middle-class silent majority at times found themselves in agreement with radical sectors as they too opposed military authoritarianism but they never embraced a revolutionary program such as that put forward by the guerrilla groups or the most militant sectors of the labor movement.

Author : Martin Edwin Andersen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029297192

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Dossier Secreto by Martin Edwin Andersen Pdf

Author : Daniel Loedel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593188668

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Hades, Argentina by Daniel Loedel Pdf

CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST “A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.” —Seattle Times A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always been willing to follow her anywhere, to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both? It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomás, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn’t a homecoming that awaits him, however, so much as an odyssey into the past, an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there, and a reckoning with the fatal gap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be. Raising profound questions about the sometimes impossible choices we make in the name of love, Hades, Argentina is a gripping, ingeniously narrated literary debut.

Author : Paul H. Lewis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053530476

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Guerrillas and Generals by Paul H. Lewis Pdf

Annotation Offers a comprehensive and balanced examination of the "Dirty War" in Argentina.

Author : Constanza Burucúa
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015082179998

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Confronting the 'Dirty War' in Argentine Cinema, 1983-1993 by Constanza Burucúa Pdf

An examination of Argentina's "Dirty War" in films made after the advent of democracy in 1983.