Waiting for Marcel Orphüls: The Literature of Authoritarian Rule and Resistance in Latin America

In 2010, at the XXIX Latin American Studies Association Congress in Toronto, the historian Steve Stern called 1970s stated-sponsored terror in Argentina a “dirty war.” An audience member self-identified as an “Argentine”, speaking for “Argentines” scolded him. “Dirty war”, he told Stern, was a term...

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Glavni autor: Sheinin, David M. K.
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2014
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:In 2010, at the XXIX Latin American Studies Association Congress in Toronto, the historian Steve Stern called 1970s stated-sponsored terror in Argentina a “dirty war.” An audience member self-identified as an “Argentine”, speaking for “Argentines” scolded him. “Dirty war”, he told Stern, was a term invented by the Argentine dictatorship, and as such, should never be used. Stern, perhaps the most authoritative analyst of Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, apologized, conceding implicitly that policing...