Author Name:
Ksenija Bilbija
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Year:
2005
How do individuals begin to speak about a political past that is too horrible for words? How is truth best voiced in a society moving out of authoritarianism? This generously illustrated volume examines the creation of stories, accounts, images, songs, street theater, paintings, and ideas that pay witness to authoritarian pasts in South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Cambodia, Serbia, Bosnia, among others.