Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más (2da Edición)

CRENZEL, EMILIO ARIEL

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Colección Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas?

Lugar: Nueva York y Londres; Año: 2017 p. 220

978-08-15381-39-6

This bookexamines the history of the production, public circulation, and theinterpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentinas National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) established in1983 by constitutional president Raúl Alfonsín to investigate the fate ofthousands of people who had been disappeared by the state during the seventies.            Upon publication in 1984, NuncaMás became a bestseller, was translated into several languages and wongreater public importance when the military juntas were brought to trial andthe court accepted the report as key evidence. The reports importance wasfurther enhanced with the adoption of CONADEP and Nunca Más as modelsfor truth commissions established in Latin Americaand when it was postulated as a means for conveying an awareness of this past to Argentinas younger generations.             This book contributes to understandthe political processes that led to Nunca Más becoming the way in whichArgentines remembered the disappearances and the countrys political violenceand how its meaning is modified by new interpretations. Given the canonicalnature of Nunca Más, the book sheds light on the most substantialchanges and the continuities in Argentinas social memory of its recent past.