Autobiographical narratives of concentration camps : a transatlantic approach to concentrationary policies and trajectories
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Abstract This comparative study examines the development and expansion of Europe's concentration camp system between 1933-1947 and, establishes transatlantic trajectories from the European repressive paradigm into Latin America, Chile in particular. This research examines literary relationships among narratives from the Holocaust, the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Chile's political repression that followed the coup d'état of 1973. Although current scholarly comprehensive studies of Europe's concentration camp system follow the transformation of the concentration camp structure, these studies remain confined to Europe's particular geo-political environment without establishing comparative bridges or processes of transference onto other concentrationary scenarios. By analyzing specific aspects of the Nazi-Francoist concentrationary camp system, this study explains the scope of this phenomenon and how it exerted particular influence in Chile's political and sociocultural context. This investigation establishes transatlantic links between the repressive policies enacted by the Third Reich, the Franco regime in Spain, and the analogous authoritarian measures implemented in Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1989). I draw upon autobiographical narratives and scholarly comprehensive studies of the European concentrationary experience to identify representations of trauma, cultural manifestations, resistance and social interaction developed within European and Chilean concentration camps. This study opens new comparative spaces for the European concentrationary research and at the same time breaks ground within Chilean scholarly studies on the political violence of its recent past. Chile lacks a comprehensive view that supports and generates the classification and analysis of its own concentrationary network. Through the analysis of historical transatlantic connections, political factors, and autobiographical narratives on the concentrationary experience, I intend to lay a research foundation that gives meaning to distinct historical events, contributes to the understanding of the transatlantic repercussions of mass social trauma, and stimulates comparative studies and inquiries into Chile and Europe's concentrationary universes.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Leni, Edith Susana |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Thesis advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Thesis advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Thesis advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
| Advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Edith Susana Leni. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2014 by Edith Susana Leni
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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