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“Meanwhile in Argentina”: Cross-References and Distortions in Latin American Memory Discourses

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Buchenhorst analyzes the collisions and misunderstandings caused by global memory entanglements. He discusses the enmeshments and contradictions between Argentine memories of the Dirty War and global Shoah memory as well as those between two regimes of uncovering the truth about past atrocities: evidentiary practices that use forensic methods to establish the facts and the quest for authenticity that privileges narratives and aesthetic representation. Argentine commemoration has not been shaped by references to a single set of foreign memory policies such as Germany’s. Forensic methods developed in Argentina have even been exported elsewhere, yet these methods have also been condemned for exerting classificatory violence on the dead. Narrative memory that draws on global Shoah discourses seeks to remedy this, but is criticized in turn for dissolving the specificity of each atrocity.

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Buchenhorst, R. (2017). “Meanwhile in Argentina”: Cross-References and Distortions in Latin American Memory Discourses. In: Gabowitsch, M. (eds) Replicating Atonement . Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65027-2_9

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