HIST 235 - Historical Memory in Latin America

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution
Credits: 3

This course will examine the complex role of historical memory in the 19th and 20th c. Latin America. We will study collective, official, counter, and living memory as analytical concepts, as well as specific memory battles and historical trauma. Readings explore the impact of Holocaust memory studies in Latin America and the erasure of indigenous and African stories from national histories. However, a special focus will be given to how historical memory is used to remember the military regimes of the 1970s and 1980s and why historical memory has emerged as the political language of expanding democratic rights.