Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780822962250
Pub Date: 28 Oct 2012
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Description:
During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the \u201copening\u201d of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship Latin America.