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Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988

Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988

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Series: Latin America Otherwise

General Political ScienceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822338416
ISBN13: 9780822338413
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 25 2006
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.82
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Battling for Hearts and Minds is the story of the dramatic struggle to define collective memory in Chile during the violent, repressive dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, from the 1973 military coup in which he seized power through his defeat in a 1988 plebiscite. Steve J. Stern provides a riveting narration of Chile's political history during this period. At the same time, he analyzes Chileans' conflicting interpretations of events as they unfolded. Drawing on testimonios, archives, Truth Commission documents, radio addresses, memoirs, and written and oral histories, Stern identifies four distinct perspectives on life and events under the dictatorship. He describes how some Chileans viewed the regime as salvation from ruin by Leftists (the narrative favored by Pinochet's junta), some as a wound repeatedly reopened by the state, others as an experience of persecution and awakening, and still others as a closed book, a past to be buried and forgotten.

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