Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History: (Re)making Our Past
Mariana Achugar
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Hardback. This book explores discursive processes of intergenerational transmission of recent history through the case of the Uruguayan dictatorship. The circulation of meanings through time and space captures the dynamic processes of recontextualization, resemiotization and intertextuality. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are struggling with the legacy of state terrorism left by the 1970s dictatorships. Coming to terms with the past entails understanding the role different social actors played in those events as well as what those event mean for us today. Young people in these situations have to learn about painful historical events over which there is no national consensus. This book explores discursive processes of ... Read more
Debates about how to remember politically contested or painful pasts exist throughout the world. As with the case of the Holocaust in Europe and Apartheid in South Africa, South American countries are struggling with the legacy of state terrorism left by the 1970s dictatorships. Coming to terms with the past entails understanding the role different social actors played in those events as well as what those event mean for us today. Young people in these situations have to learn about painful historical events over which there is no national consensus. This book explores discursive processes of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137487322
SKU
V9781137487322
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About Mariana Achugar
Mariana Achugar is a Guggenheim Fellow. She works as Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Her research explores cultural reproduction and change from a critical discourse analysis perspective. Among her publications is What we remember: the construction of memory in military discourse (2008).
Reviews for Discursive Processes of Intergenerational Transmission of Recent History: (Re)making Our Past
Postgraduate students and academics working m the areas of Critical Discourse Studies, Memory Studies and Latin American Studies can benefit greatly from this book. It is coherently organized and approaches the issue of remembering from a diverse methodological and theoretical background, having at its core the relation between language as a semiotic System m its social and historical context and ... Read more