The Future of Memory
Children of the Dictatorship in Argentina Speak
Children experience the world in vivid and indelible ways. For those who had to suffer the reality of the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983), the memories of that time remain powerfully present.
The Future of Memory is made up of almost thirty testimonies, which between them provide a unique entry point into understanding those years and their legacy. Interviews with young Argentinians from all over the country are the centre of the book. These include children of parents disappeared or murdered during the last dictatorship, children of families who had to flee the country due to persecution , as well as children whose parents were imprisoned and those children stolen by repressors. Woven throughout these are documentary sources and judicial procedures relating to their testimony, including historical notes to the political context of the dictatorship. By bringing together the past, the present and the time which has elapsed in between, Jaroslavsky conveys the ways in which memories shape our existence and understanding.
Published: 2004
Pages: 250
eBook: 9781909013193
Paperback: 9781899365555
The Future of Memory is made up of almost thirty testimonies, which between them provide a unique entry point into understanding those years and their legacy. Interviews with young Argentinians from all over the country are the centre of the book. These include children of parents disappeared or murdered during the last dictatorship, children of families who had to flee the country due to persecution , as well as children whose parents were imprisoned and those children stolen by repressors. Woven throughout these are documentary sources and judicial procedures relating to their testimony, including historical notes to the political context of the dictatorship. By bringing together the past, the present and the time which has elapsed in between, Jaroslavsky conveys the ways in which memories shape our existence and understanding.
| Introduction I 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 The dictatorship fan club I 5 | |||
| RAMIRO AND MARTIN FRESNEDA | |||
| 2 Cynicism I 15 | |||
| ANA PAOLETTI | |||
| 3 Thou shalt not kill I 26 | |||
| WALTER MEZA NIELLA | |||
| 4 The arrogance of firepower I 36 | |||
| MARIA LAVALLE | |||
| 5 The Argentinian Inquisition I 4 7 | |||
| PABLO BALUSTRA | |||
| 6 Slavery the American way I 53 | |||
| LUIS AVILA | |||
| 7 The sword and the cross I 58 | |||
| MARTIN EZPELETA JR | |||
| 8 Divine justice I 65 | |||
| PABLO ERNESTO Dl VITO | |||
| 9 Modernity I 71 | |||
| AGUSTIN Dl TOFFINO | |||
| 10 Subversion in the education system | |||
| (Getting to know our enemy) I 78 | |||
| SANTIAGO DEL VALLE | |||
| 11 National symbols I 85 | |||
| MATIAS FACUNDO MORENO | |||
| 12 Bombardment in Tucuman I 94 | |||
| DAFNE ZAMUDIO | |||
| l3 Christian, Western ... (and white) I 100 | |||
| JIMENA VICARIO | |||
| 14 The Name ofthe Rose I 107 | |||
| ERNESTO ANDREANI | |||
| 15 Incredible as it may seem I 113 | |||
| MARIA JULIA CORIA | |||
| 16 Moral curriculum I 118 | |||
| VERONICA CASTELLI | |||
| 17 Five centuries later, nothing's changed I 123 | |||
| MARIA CORONEL | |||
| 18 Dictatorship and propaganda I 128 | |||
| DEBORA VILLANUEVA | |||
| 19 The World Cup, 1978 I 138 | |||
| ALBA CAMARGO | |||
| 20 Sincericide I 14 3 | |||
| MARIANA EVA TELLO | |||
| 21 Old friends I 150 | |||
| EDUARDO NACHMAN | |||
| 22 Metamorphosis I 157 | |||
| JOSEFINA GIGLIO | |||
| 23 Downhill I 165 | |||
| NAZARENO BRAVO | |||
| 24 Iceberg ahead I 172 | |||
| MIGUEL CEBALLOS | |||
| 25 The Rattenbach Report I 185 | |||
| CAROLINA GHIGLIAZZA | |||
| 26 Amnesty or amnesia or both I 195 | |||
| DIEGO REYNAGA | |||
| 2 7 The plague I 208 | |||
| VICTORIA OLIVENCIA | |||
| 28 Who, me? I 214 | |||
| MARIANA EVA PEREZ | |||
| Historical Notes- by Alejandro Andreassi I 225 | |||
| Glossary I 232 | |||
| Bibliography I 234 |
"These testimonies are to be welcomed. They show what the eyes of some women and men saw when they survived the extermination of their parents. Those eyes were young when the horror took place and now they help us to see."
Eduardo Galeano
Andres Jaroslavsky has worked with a number of human rights organisations in Argentina; his father was disappeared in 1975. At the time of writing he lived in York , England, where he was a music teacher.
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