Edited By Francesca Lessa and Vincent Druliolle

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences and challenges associated with the preservation of the memories of state repression in South America

Foreword; F.Lessa & V.Druliolle Introduction - Present Pasts: Memory(es) of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone of Latin America; E.Crenzel Remembering and its Places in Post-Dictatorship Argentina; V.Druliolle The Slogan 'Complete Memory': A Reactive (Re)-Signification of the Memory of the Disappeared in Argentina; V.Salvi Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and Los Rubios; C.Sosa Justice and its Remainders: Diamela Eltit's Puño y letra; M.J.Lazzara Chile: Dilemmas of memory; E.Lira The Traces of 'Postmemory' in Second-Generation Chilean and Argentinean Identities; A.Serpente Collective Memories of the Trauma of Forced Disappearance: Reflections on the Case of the Disappeared Political Detainees in the Aftermath of Uruguay's State Terror (1985-2001); G.Fried No hay que tener los ojos en la nuca : The Memory of Violence in Uruguay, 1973-2010; F.Lessa Afterword - The Politics of 'Memory' in the Long Present of the Southern Cone; V.Bell

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.