An exploration of the dynamics of memory, narration, censorship and oblivion after a period of state violence either under a dictatorship or in an official democracy. This course analyses and compares literary genres (testimonies, diaries, poetry and fiction), visual archives, documentary films, practices and projects of memory (Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi, Museo de la Memoria in Chile, Museo Casa de la Memoria Indómita in Mexico, sitios de memoria and digital resources). Students will be able to compare debates, outcomes and current controversies of production of memory in Chile after the coup and dictatorship of Pinochet, and in Mexico after the repression of the student movement of68 and the guerrilla movement.
- Docente: Aurelia Gómez De Unamuno