Repression, Exile, and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture

Repression, Exile, and Democracy, translated from the Spanish, is the first work to examine the impact of dictatorship on Uruguyan culture. Some of Uruguay's best-known poets, writers of fiction, playwrights, literary critics and social scientists participate in this multidisciplinary study, analyzing how varying cultural expressions have been affected by conditions of censorship, exile and "insilio" (internal exile), torture, and death.
The first section provides a context for the volume, with its analyses of the historical, political, and social aspects of the Uruguayan experience. The following chapters explore various aspects of cultural production, including personal experiences of exile and imprisonment, popular music, censorship, literary criticism, return from exile, and the role that culture plays in redemocratization.
This book's appeal extends well beyond the study of Uruguay to scholars and students of the history and culture of other Latin American nations, as well as to fields of comparative literature and politics in general.

Contributors. Hugo Achugar, Alvarro Barros-L mez, Lisa Block de Behar, Amanda Berenguer, Hiber Conteris, Jos Pedro D az, Eduardo Galeano, Edy Kaufman, Leo Masliah, Carina Perelli, Teresa Porzecanski, Juan Rial, Mauricio Rosencof, Jorge Ruffinelli, Sa l Sosonowski, Martin Weinstein, Ruben Y ez

Author: Saul Sosnowski
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/30/1992
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.18h x 5.75w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780822312680

About the Author

Saul Sosnowski is Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of the Office of International Programs at the University of Maryland.