@article{1451873,
      recid = {1451873},
      author = {Rojinsky, David,},
      title = {Viewing photography in post-dictatorship Latin America :  visual interruptions, 1997-2016 /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Chapter 1: Visual InterruptionsChapter 2: Vernacular  PresenceChapter 3: Imagined GenealogiesChapter 4: Memory  WallsChapter 5: Absent GazesChapter 6: Never Again!Chapter  7: Disappeared (Epilogue).},
      abstract = {This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and  memory developed by Latin American artists and  photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is  paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared  political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in  family albums and in official archives, were not only  re-imagined as conduits for private mourning, but also  became allegories of social trauma and the struggle against  socio-political amnesia. Memorials, art installations,  photo-essays, street projections, and documentary films are  all considered as media for the reframing of these archival  images from the era of the Cold War dictatorships in  Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, and Uruguay. While the turn of  the millennium was supposedly marked by "the end of  history" and, with the advent of digital technologies, by  "the end of photography," these works served to interrupt  and hence, belie the dominant narrative on both counts.  Indeed, the book's overarching contention is that the  viewers affective identification with distant suffering  when engaging these artworks is equally interrupted:  instead, the viewer is invited to apprehend memorial images  as emblems of national and international histories of  ideological struggle. David Rojinsky is a UK-based  independent researcher specialising in Latin American and  Iberian visual cultures. His articles have appeared in A  Contracorriente, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies,  Journal of Romance Studies and Journal of Iberian and Latin  American Studies. He is the author of the monograph,  Companion to Empire: A Genealogy of the Written Word in  Spain and New Spain, c. 5501550, published in 2010.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451873},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17590-9},
}