Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998

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During the two years just before the 1998 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet, the historian Steve J. Stern had been in Chile collecting oral histories of life under Pinochet as part of an investigation into the form and meaning of memories of state-sponsored atrocities. In this compelling work, Stern shares the recollections of individual Chileans and draws on their stories to provide a framework for understanding memory struggles in history. Contents Acknowledgments Maps Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile Introduction to Book One: Remembering Pinochet’s Chile Chapter 1. Heroic Memory: Ruin into Salvation Afterword: Childhood Holidays, Childhood Salvation Chapter 2. Dissident Memory: Rupture, Persecution, Awakening Afterword: The Lore of Goodness and Remorse Chapter 3. Indifferent Memory: Closing the Box on the Past Afterword: The Accident: Temptations of Silence Chapter 4. From Loose Memory to Emblematic Memory: Knots on the Social Body Afterword: Memory Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Conclusion: Memories and Silences of the Heart Abbreviations used in notes and essay on sources Notes Essay on sources Index