TY - BOOK ID - 7760797 TI - Narrow but endlessly deep : the struggle for memoralisation in Chile since the transition to democracy AU - Read, Peter AU - Wyndham, Marivic PY - 2016 SN - 1760460214 1760460222 9781760460228 9781760460211 PB - ANU Press DB - UniCat KW - Collective memory KW - Chile KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Memorialization KW - Memorialisation KW - Memorials KW - chile KW - public history KW - memorialisation KW - Augusto Pinochet KW - Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional KW - Human rights KW - Torture KW - Villa Grimaldi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7760797 AB - On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated -- including the infamous National Stadium -- are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment. ER -