Papers by Michael Lazzara
Nuestra América, 2016
los aniversarios de los treinta y de los cuarenta años del golpe de Estado que instaló la dictadu... more los aniversarios de los treinta y de los cuarenta años del golpe de Estado que instaló la dictadura de Pinochet en Chile han sido acompañados por una especie de "boom" autobiográfico y memorialista. Tantas figuras políticas conocidas como exmilitantes de los sesenta y setenta han dado a conocer sus relatos de vida en formato de libros, entrevistas y películas. Este artículo examina las autorrepresentaciones de dos autobiógrafos chilenos, max marambio (ex-mIR) y Eugenio Tironi (ex-mAPu), que han abandonado sus posiciones radicales de izquierda convirtiéndose en lo que hoy en Chile se conoce como izquierdistas "renovados" (es decir, un izquierdismo que opera dentro de la lógica del mercado neoliberal). ¿Cómo cuentan sus vidas y justifican sus metamorfosis subjetivas? El artículo cierra con un examen del discurso de marco Enríquez-ominami, hijo del líder legendario del mIR (miguel Enríquez) y dos veces candidato a la presidencia (2009 y 2013), cuya vida dramatiza tanto la problemática de la izquierda en la postdictadura como la tensión que surge al pensar entre épocas. Autobiografía; Chile; ideología; memoria; transiciones a la democracia.
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2016
The upsurge in Latin American documentary film at the turn of the twenty-first century is undenia... more The upsurge in Latin American documentary film at the turn of the twenty-first century is undeniable. In a region that has made documentary films, in some form or another, since the end of the nineteenth century, fiction film has long eclipsed the documentary in terms of prestige and circulation. Yet signs indicate that this situation is changing. While documentary production in the USA enjoyed something of a boom in the 2000s—it now comprises about 10% of the market—in Argentina, as Jens Andermann has noted, documentary now accounts for about 40% of total film production.1 The reasons for this boom are likely many and may include factors such as: an increase in documentary festivals, the creation of alternative distribution channels, the relatively inexpensive nature of documentary filmmaking, the democratization of the “field” for aspiring filmmakers, the use of portable media and new technologies, and the advantages of documentary for dealing with urgent social, political, or economic issues.2 Moreover, this boom in documentary has been accompanied not only by increased academic inquiry about the documentary form, but also by sustained innovation in documentary filmmaking practices—practices that are increasingly reflexive, metacinematic, and that blur the line traditionally separating documentary from fiction film.
Revista Iberoamericana, Sep 6, 2009
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, 2011
Choice Reviews Online, Jun 1, 2007
"A lucid and well-thought-out study of artistic expressions that evoke experiences from the ... more "A lucid and well-thought-out study of artistic expressions that evoke experiences from the years of the military dictatorship in Chile. . . . The perceptive analyses, intelligent insights, and breadth of information . . . make this [book] compelling reading."--Maria Ines Lagos, University of Virginia Lazzara examines the political, ethical, and aesthetic implications of the diverse narrative forms Chilean artists have used to represent the memory of political violence under the Pinochet regime. By studying multiple "lenses of memory" through which truths about the past have been constructed, he seeks to expose the complex intersections among trauma, subjectivity, and literary genres, and to question the nature of trauma's "artistic" rendering. Drawing on current theorizations about memory, human rights, and trauma, Lazzara analyzes a broad body of written, visual, and oral texts produced during Chile's democratic transition as representations of a set of poetics searching to connect politics and memory, achieve personal reconciliation, or depict the "unspeakable" personal and collective consequences of torture and disappearance. In so doing, he sets the "politics of consensus and reconciliation" against alternative narratives that offer an ethical counterpoint to "forgetting and looking toward the future" and argues that perhaps only those works that resist hasty narrative resolution to the past can stand up to the ethical and epistemological challenges facing postdictatorial societies still struggling to come to terms with their history. Grounded in Lazzara's firsthand knowledge of the post-Pinochet period and its cultural production, "Chile in Transition" offers groundbreaking connections and perspectives that set this period in the context of other postauthoritarian societies dealing with contested memories and conflicting memorializing practices, most notably with Holocaust studies.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 12, 2015
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 30, 2022
Duke University Press eBooks, Jan 11, 2021
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2011
Readers of The Inferno understand how difficult it was for you to tell your story. You had to ove... more Readers of The Inferno understand how difficult it was for you to tell your story. You had to overcome many fears and personal obstacles. How would you characterize those fears?
Journal of Human Rights, Jul 1, 2013
One of the most deplorable and characteristic aspects of Argentina's “Dirty War” (1976–1983) ... more 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 individual and societal levels. By studying a few well-chosen cases of children whose identities have been restored, I seek to characterize the different and often radically opposed ways in which the sons and daughters of disappeared leftist militants have told their stories and understood their experience. My goal is to identify some of the most capacious and emblematic memory scripts that have emerged to accommodate variegated individual biographies. From these cases, it becomes abundantly clear that what is in the “best interest of the child” has no easy answer. One important conclusion is that the stolen children's memories (as young adults) are almost always a reflection of politically motivated, present-bound interests and manifest in tandem with the dynamics of Argentina's transition to democracy as a broader historical process.
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. CLACSO eBooks, Jul 1, 2021
Brújula: Revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos, 2007
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2011
In the first part of The Inferno, you refer to your militancy in the Socialist Party. Reflecting ... more In the first part of The Inferno, you refer to your militancy in the Socialist Party. Reflecting from the present, why and for what were you fighting as a militant?
Chasqui-revista De Literatura Latinoamericana, 2006
... as a state sponsored practice), the attainment of justice in various landmark human rights ca... more ... as a state sponsored practice), the attainment of justice in various landmark human rights cases, the inaugu? ration of Michelle Bachelet in 2006, the prosecution of the former dictator and his family follo? wing the Riggs Bank ...
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