Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239).

Introduction: narrow but endlessly deep -- Victor Jara, the State University of Technology and the Victor Jara Stadium -- From state terror to state error: Patio 29, General Cemetery, Santiago -- Carved cherubs frolicking in a sunny stream: the National Stadium -- Last stand of the MIR: Londres 38 -- The chosen one: 1367 José Domingo Cañas -- A garden of horror or a park of peace: Villa Grimaldi -- A memorial destroyed: Loyola, Quinta Normal -- The memorials today and the advance of the state.

On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the state on its own citizens should be remembered, and by whom. The sites investigated -- including the infamous National Stadium -- are among the most iconic of more than 1,000 such sites throughout the country. The study grants a glimpse of the depth of feeling that survivors and the families of the detained-disappeared and the politically executed bring to each of the sites. The book traces their struggle to memorialise each one, and so unfolds their idealism and hope, courage and frustration, their hatred, excitement, resentment, sadness, fear, division and disillusionment.

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