Product Description
by A. Ros (Author)
The Post-Dictatorship Generation in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay explores how young adults in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay make sense of the 1970s socialist projects and the ensuing years of repression in their activism, film, and literature.
Author Biography
Ana Ros is an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton, where she teaches Latin American Cinema and Literature. She studied Literature at the University of Uruguay and received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Michigan. In her research, she critically examines contemporary Southern Cone cultural production in its socio-political context. Her interests include collective memory, intergenerational transmission, the post-dictatorship generation, exile and emigration, class relations, and the use of popular culture in literature. Her publications include: Young Argentine Filmmakers: Remembering the Past from a Present of Crisis in Latin American Studies: Critiques of Contemporary Cinema, Literatures, Politics and Revolution (Academica Press, 2011); Forgiveness and Reconciliation as Generational Questions, Argentina 1982-2011 in Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (2011); Leaving and Letting Go as Possible Ways of Living Together in Jorge Gaggero s
