Michael J Lazzara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Lazzara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lazzara |
| SIGNATURE | LAZZARA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Roberto Bolaño in Context
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium
Complicity and Responsibility in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Regime: "The Case of "El Mocito
Forty years after the Pinochet regime, the theme of civilian complicity is just beginning to be discussed publicly in Chile. This lecture will emphasize the importance of this little-discussed topic by examining the case of Jorgelino Vergara, known in Chile as El Mocito, a man who as an adolescent served coffee to the ex-head of Pinochet's secret police, General Manuel Contreras, and carried out other horrifying tasks in the torture center locate…
Writing Complicity
Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA henchman Michael Townley, infamous for his complicity in the deaths of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende Gossens's former minister Orlando Letelier, a…
Kidnapped Memories: Argentina's Stolen Children Tell Their Stories
One of the most deplorable and characteristic aspects of Argentina's “Dirty War” (1976–1983) was the stealing of babies by military families or regime supporters. Approximately 500 children were “transferred” during this time period. Thanks to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, 108 children have had their identities restored to date. This article focuses on how child transfer in Argentina has affected the construction of memories at both the indi…
Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the aftermath of state violence
Foreword J.Franco Introduction: After the Inferno MJ.Lazzara PART I: NAMES, DATES, PLACES: SUMMARY OF LUZ ARCE'S DECLARATION BEFORE THE NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, OCTOBER 9, 1990) PART II: INTERVIEW WITH LUZ ARCE (MEXICO, CHILE, 2002-2007) The Militant, the Sympathizer Collaboration, Critiques, Remorse Trauma and Writing Masculinity and Femininity Luz, Marcia, Carola (Ana Maria Vergara, Marta Vergara, Gloria …
Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile
Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for
Telling Ruins in Latin America
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethi
Filming Loss: (Post-)Memory, Subjectivity, and the Performance of Failure in Recent Argentine Documentary Films
Two Argentine filmmakers of the postdictatorship generation have used the documentary as a space in which to question constructions of history, memory, and identity in the aftermath of traumatic and tumultuous experiences. Both projects foreground the idea of loss and the difficulties of writing a "truthful" version of the past when confronted by politically motivated "official histories," temporal shift, ideological change, lost referents, and m…
El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género y Estado en América Latina
The Poetics of Impossibility: Diamela Eltit's el Padre Mío
At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, survivor bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. (Giorgio Agamben) [Schizophrenics] destroy imposed speech, which is violating in its claims to proper, exclusive, totalitarian meaning ... They explode that meaning which for them had always been meaningless--in order to get back down to, and play around with, its cat…
Filming Loss: (Post-)Memory, Subjectivity, and the Performance of Failure in Recent Argentine Documentary Films
Two Argentine filmmakers of the postdictatorship generation have used the documentary as a space in which to question constructions of history, memory, and identity in the aftermath of traumatic and tumultuous experiences. Both projects foreground the idea of loss and the difficulties of writing a "truthful" version of the past when confronted by politically motivated "official histories," temporal shift, ideological change, lost referents, and m…
Complicity and Responsibility in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Regime: "The Case of "El Mocito
Forty years after the Pinochet regime, the theme of civilian complicity is just beginning to be discussed publicly in Chile. This lecture will emphasize the importance of this little-discussed topic by examining the case of Jorgelino Vergara, known in Chile as El Mocito, a man who as an adolescent served coffee to the ex-head of Pinochet's secret police, General Manuel Contreras, and carried out other horrifying tasks in the torture center locate…
Kidnapped Memories: Argentina's Stolen Children Tell Their Stories
One of the most deplorable and characteristic aspects of Argentina's “Dirty War” (1976–1983) was the stealing of babies by military families or regime supporters. Approximately 500 children were “transferred” during this time period. Thanks to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, 108 children have had their identities restored to date. This article focuses on how child transfer in Argentina has affected the construction of memories at both the indi…
Writing Complicity
Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA henchman Michael Townley, infamous for his complicity in the deaths of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende Gossens's former minister Orlando Letelier, a…
The Poetics of Impossibility: Diamela Eltit's el Padre Mío
At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, survivor bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. (Giorgio Agamben) [Schizophrenics] destroy imposed speech, which is violating in its claims to proper, exclusive, totalitarian meaning ... They explode that meaning which for them had always been meaningless--in order to get back down to, and play around with, its cat…
El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género y Estado en América Latina
Telling Ruins in Latin America
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethi
Filming Loss: (Post-)Memory, Subjectivity, and the Performance of Failure in Recent Argentine Documentary Films
Two Argentine filmmakers of the postdictatorship generation have used the documentary as a space in which to question constructions of history, memory, and identity in the aftermath of traumatic and tumultuous experiences. Both projects foreground the idea of loss and the difficulties of writing a "truthful" version of the past when confronted by politically motivated "official histories," temporal shift, ideological change, lost referents, and m…
Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the aftermath of state violence
Foreword J.Franco Introduction: After the Inferno MJ.Lazzara PART I: NAMES, DATES, PLACES: SUMMARY OF LUZ ARCE'S DECLARATION BEFORE THE NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, OCTOBER 9, 1990) PART II: INTERVIEW WITH LUZ ARCE (MEXICO, CHILE, 2002-2007) The Militant, the Sympathizer Collaboration, Critiques, Remorse Trauma and Writing Masculinity and Femininity Luz, Marcia, Carola (Ana Maria Vergara, Marta Vergara, Gloria …
Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile
Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for
Kidnapped Memories: Argentina's Stolen Children Tell Their Stories
One of the most deplorable and characteristic aspects of Argentina's “Dirty War” (1976–1983) was the stealing of babies by military families or regime supporters. Approximately 500 children were “transferred” during this time period. Thanks to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, 108 children have had their identities restored to date. This article focuses on how child transfer in Argentina has affected the construction of memories at both the indi…
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium
Complicity and Responsibility in the Aftermath of the Pinochet Regime: "The Case of "El Mocito
Forty years after the Pinochet regime, the theme of civilian complicity is just beginning to be discussed publicly in Chile. This lecture will emphasize the importance of this little-discussed topic by examining the case of Jorgelino Vergara, known in Chile as El Mocito, a man who as an adolescent served coffee to the ex-head of Pinochet's secret police, General Manuel Contreras, and carried out other horrifying tasks in the torture center locate…
Writing Complicity
Civilian complicity remains one of the least studied aspects of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and, to this point, has not been a matter of widespread public debate in Chile. This article examines the case of Mariana Callejas, a literary writer who married the American-born DINA henchman Michael Townley, infamous for his complicity in the deaths of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende Gossens's former minister Orlando Letelier, a…
Roberto Bolaño in Context
Art (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (4 works) · Democracy (4 works)