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Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina
For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances of torture, and innumerable assassinations. Despite continued repression, thousands of parents searched for their disappeared children, staging street protests that eventually marshaled international support. Challenging the notion that violence simply breeds more violence, Antonius C. G. M. Robben's provocative study argues that in Argentina violence led to trauma, and that trauma bred more violen...
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The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World
I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in orde...
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
"A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda."A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula" undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
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La noche de los lápices
Muchos episodios politicos conmovieron a la Argentina en las dos ultimas decadas, pero pocos han dejado huellas tan profundas en nuestra conciencia social como el ocurrido el 16 de septiembre de 1976 en la ciudad de La Plata, cuando un grupo de estudiantes secundarios luchaban por la reincorporacion del boleto escolar gratuito y fueron brutalmente secuestrados y torturados durante meses en un campo clandestino de detencion. Todos ellos tenian entre catorce y dieciocho anos; solo uno sobrevivio: Pablo Diaz, y se encargo de contar al mundo esta tragedia.La noche de los lapices es mucho mas que una investigacion. Maria Seoane y Hector Ruiz Nunez bucearon en los recuerdos de familiares y amigos, en los cuadernos y papeles personales de cada una de las victimas para desentranar sus suenos y expectativas truncas y los superpusieron al retrato de una Argentina paralizada por el terror y el autoritarismo. Tanto que, desde su aparicion en 1986, el libro se convirtio en un clasico instantaneo.
