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The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared

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The Politics of Postmemory

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This chapter discusses the use of historical memory by Argentina’s post-dictatorship generation through two novels, Soy un bravo piloto de la nueva China (2011) by Ernesto Semán and El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (2011) by Patricio Pron. By considering the dynamic interplay between the subjective processes of memory and the supposed objectivity of history in these texts, the chapter engages with European and Latin American debates that posit memory and history as complementary rather than opposing concepts. The chapter then focuses specifically on contemporary debates surrounding the application of theories of postmemory in situations other than post-Holocaust Europe, and acknowledges Susannah Radstone’s (2012) assertion of the need to ‘Bring Memory Home’ to its original socio-political and cultural context.

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Maguire, G. (2017). The Copyright Generation: Historical Memory and the Children of the Disappeared. In: The Politics of Postmemory . Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51605-9_2

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