Expanded Fields: Postdictatorship and the Landscape

Tell me your story about the Chilean dictatorship: When doing memory is taking positions

“…In summary, the presented positions contribute to distinguishing between diverse claims that coexist within the current memory landscape (Andermann, 2012), and that, going beyond antagonisms, show that the question of who we are , considering a conflictive past and the way we remember it, implies family tensions and new demands for acknowledgment. This coexistence of positions suggests that the memory struggles are still very much alive in our society.…”

“…Different studies have tried to understand a landscape of memory (Andermann, 2012), or a memoryscape (Reavey, 2017), that is, complex and changeable. These studies share the concerns of memory studies in Latin America motivated by the generalized violation of human rights in different dictatorships during the 1970s (Jelin, 2002; Schindel, 2009; Winn, 2014).…”

“…A prolific area of research has focused on memory sites, addressing the relation between memory, space and materiality (Andermann, 2012). This kind of work has studied versions of the past transmitted and constructed in memory sites (Klep, 2012; Piper et al, 2017; Violi, 2012), the ideological segregation of memorials in the city (Aguilera, 2015) and the empathic experiences that take place when visiting memorials (Hite, 2016).…”

Memoria geográfica en el testimonio chileno: Isla Dawson

“…Pero también se refiere a una construcción derivada de la relación del cuerpo con el espacio a través de experiencias sensoriales que incluyen las emociones, y que lleva a plantear la existencia de smellscape, soundscape y tastescape (Cano, 2015). En este sentido, lo que se ha llamado "paisajes de memoria" (Alderman & Inwood, 2013;Schindel & Colombo, 2014) y el "poder nemónico del paisaje" (Andermann, 2012) aluden tanto al conjunto de inscripciones materiales y estéticas que en el espacio actual remiten al pasado o permiten recordar, como a la elaboración misma de la imagen del paisaje a través de la memoria y sus relatos, de esta manera la acción de narrar una historia es en sí misma una forma de recordar en un paisaje (Mate, 2010).…”

Wounded: Studies in Literary and Cinematic Trauma

“…Discussions on intermediality in postdictatorship narratives in South America concern themselves with the increasing mass-media dissemination of images of collective tragedies, the effect of that dissemination on the remembrance of these traumatic events, and more specifically a "deterritorialization" of images (Andermann 2012;King 2013). Jens Andermann focuses on "the tension between static photographic image and the moving cinematic image" in posttraumatic autobiographical and autofictional documentaries in Argentina (Andermann 2012, p. 178).…”