Forgetting, Denying, and Archiving: A Hemispheric Perspective on Memory and Violence
AMST 343
Spring 2016
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01
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| Crosslisting:
LAST 343 |
| Certificates: International Relations |
This course will examine the ways in which violence has been represented and reproduced by various social actors. It will present students with key works on the politics of memory from North America, Central America, and South America. For the Latin American portion, the class will examine the memory of the turbulent 20th century with a special emphasis on the period after the Cold War when Latin nations were forced to confront the memory of years of military repression, disappearances, violence, and death. Students will come away with an understanding that memory is not fixed or pervasive but is, in many ways, a sociocultural construct dependent on various repertoires. Moving from South to Central America, it presents how violent events were denied, acknowledged, and transformed, while selectively archived in a culture pushing to forget but simultaneously immortalize and search for healing. For the North American portion, the class will examine memorialization in relation to Indigenous populations and their encounters and ongoing struggles with settler colonialism, while blurring the boundaries through attention to "border thinking." By following a trajectory from the repression to the (re)production of memories, one that will in large part play out in the archives and their uses, the class will chart a number of responses to the various forms of colonization of memory. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Horacio Verbitsky, CONFESSIONS OF AN ARGENTINE DIRTY WARRIOR: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF ATROCITY
Mark Danner, THE MASSACRE AT EL MOZOTE
THE ARGENTINE SILENT MAJORITY: MIDDLE CLASSES, POLITICS, VIOLENCE AND MEMORY IN THE SEVENTIES
Macarena Gomez-Barris , WHERE MEMORY DWELLS: CULTURE AND STATE VIOLENCE IN CHILE
Kirsten Weld, PAPER CADAVERS: THE ARCHIVES OF DICTATORSHIP IN GUATEMALA
Jean M. O'Brien, FIRSTING AND LASTING: WRITING INDIANS OUT OF EXISTENCE IN NEW ENGLAND
D'Arcy McKnickle, THE SURROUNDED (Novel)
Paul Whitehouse, SEEING RED: VIOLENCE AND CULTURAL MEMORY in D'Arcy McNickle's THE SURROUNDED
Marc Nichanian, THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC PERVERSION
Mark Rifkin, WHEN DID INDIANS BECOME STRAIGHT?: KINSHIP, THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY, AND NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY
Peter Nabakov, NATIVE AMERICAN TESTIMONY
Jane Blocker, FAILURES OF SELF-SEEING: JAMES LUNA REMEMBERS DINO
Toni Morrison, THE SITE OF MEMORY
James Clifford, IDENTITY IN MASHPEE
Walter Mignolo, GEOPOLITICS OF SENSING AND KNOWING: ON (DE)COLONIALITY, BORDER THINKING, AND EPISTEMIC DISOBEDIENCE
Kim Tallbear, NATIVE AMERICAN DNA
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| Instructor(s): Dimas,Carlos Salvador Minch,Mark Allen Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: FISK404; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 11 | 1st Ranked: 3 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 6 |
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