Collective Trauma and Audiovisual (Post)memory in Latin America in the 21st Century. Introduction

Abstract

The audiovisual representations of collective traumas in Latin America that have emerged in the 21th century are formed as cultural means of memory. As such they play a guiding role, both in terms of diffusion and as well as specific forms and images with which they have provided the traumas as products of dictatorships, violence and losses at a collective level. The introduction to this dossier outlines some general reflections about the relationship between collective trauma and audiovisual memory and then leads to the analysis of different articulations and representations of specific traumas, such as the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships, the armed conflict in Peru, systematic repression In Guatemala and a loss of another type that is articulated in audiovisual productions in Brazil.

Keywords

• Collective Trauma
• Audiovisual representations
• Latin America
• 21st Century