Repression, Exile, and Democracy

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-Lémez, Lisa Block de Behar, Amanda Berenguer, Hiber Conteris, José Pedro Díaz, Eduardo Galeano, Edy Kaufman, Leo Masliah, Carina Perelli, Teresa Porzecanski, Juan Rial, Mauricio Rosencof, Jorge Ruffinelli, Saúl Sosonowski, Martin Weinstein, Ruben Yáñez

  • Contents
  • Editorial Note
  • Saúl Sosnowski / As Seen from the Other Shore: Uruguaryan Culture (Repression, Exile, and Democracy)
  • Part I. Contexts
    • Edy Kaufman / The Role of the Political Parties in the Redemocratization of Uruguay
    • Juan Rial / The Social Imaginary: Utopian Political Myths in Uruguay (Change and Permanence during and after the Dictatorship)
    • Martin Weinstein / The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Uruguay: Lessons for the Future
  • Part II. Culture and Power
    • Eduardo Galeano / The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: The Hidden Wounds
    • Leo Masliah / Popular Music: Censorship and Repression
    • Mauricio Rosencof / On Suffering, Song, and White Horses
    • Ruben Yáñez / The Repression of Uruguayan Culture: A Response to the People's Response to the Crisis
    • Carina Perelli / The Power of Memory and the Memory of Power
  • Part III. Literature and Repression
    • Amanda Berenguer / The Signs on the Table
    • Lisa Block de Behar / From Silence to Eloquence: Critical Resistance or the Ambivalent Aspects of a Discourse in Crisis
    • Hiber Conteris / on Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison Life
    • José Pedro Díaz / The Silences of Culture
    • Teresa Porzecanski / Fiction and Friction int he Imaginative Narrative Written inside Uruguay
  • Part IV. The Shores of Exile
    • Hugo Achugar / Postdictatorship, Democracy, and Culture in the Uruguay Eighties
    • Alvaro Barros-Lémez / Uruguay: Redemocratization, Culture, Return from Exile (Is It Possible to Go Home Again?)
    • Jorge Rugginelli / Uruguay, Inside and Out
  • Contributors