Digital Archives and Intergenerational Reckoning with Chile's Traumatic Past In Mis documentos (2014) and Poeta chileno (2020) by Alejandro Zambra
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William R Benner (0009-0008-3048-5682, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-256 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2022.2093173 |
| OpenAlex | W4288035453 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
The children who grew up during the Pinochet regime have turned to literature, film, and digital media to reckon with the material and immaterial consequences of state-sponsored terror. To date, there is a dearth of critical attention on how digital archiving influences testimonial literature in the Southern Cone. Alejandro Zambra has received international acclaim for his insightful narratives that explore intergenerational memory struggles and allegories of post-dictatorship isolation. This article examines his more recent works as they turn to the computer, the Internet, digital archives, and use them as a generational means to communicate trauma. Together, Zambra and the reader can contemplate the possibilities and limitations that digital archives have and will have for Chile’s memory struggles
Advertising · Art · Art history · Democracy · Dictatorship · Digital media · Humanities · Literature · Media studies · Memorialization · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Testimonial · Traumatic memories · Computer Science · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Psychology
The Untimely Present
Things with a History
Reckoning with Pinochet
The Post-dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Archive Fever
Tales from the Crypt
The Generation of Postmemory
Between Memory and History
The Reconfigurations of Post-dictatorship Critical Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |