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Citizens of Memory: Refiguring the Past in Postdictatorship Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Silvia R. Tandeciarz
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Abstract

If, as Angel Rama claims in The Lettered City, the city dictates everything one must think, forcing its inhabitants to repeat its discourse, how might shifts in the city's contours affect the construction of civil society? How might urban designs that facilitate the work of recollection help inform conceptions of citizenship for historical actors emerging from dictatorship? These are the questions cultural practitioners in Argentina address through interventions in the Buenos Aires cityscape that honor victims of state terrorism (1976–83). By analyzing three memorial sites that illuminate the complex relation between space and democratic practices, this essay traces how geography, architecture, trauma, and memory interface in the rearticulation of a collective Argentine national identity.

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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 1: Special Topics Cities , January 2007 , pp. 151 - 169
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2007

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