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Abstract
Focusing on the case of post-dictatorship Uruguay, this article reconsiders the term “postmemory,” coined by Marianne Hirsch to describe the transmission of memory from Holocaust survivors to their children about events that preceded their birth. It examines two groups: HIJOS, comprised of the offspring of the dictatorship’s victims, who were babies and young children during the dictatorship, and Niños en Cautiverio Político, whose members were imprisoned with their mothers as infants or born in captivity. Analysis of these contrasting organizations elucidates postmemory’s complexity, revealing the broad spectrum of experiences it encompasses and the role of external factors in the construction of memory.
本文以独裁统治后的乌拉圭为例,重新思考“后记忆”一词,这个词是由Marianne Hirsch创造的,用来描述大屠杀幸存者对他们出生之前的事件的记忆传递给他们的孩子。它调查了两个群体:hijo,由独裁受害者的后代组成,他们在独裁统治期间是婴儿和幼儿;Niños en Cautiverio Político,其成员在婴儿时期与母亲一起被监禁或在囚禁中出生。对这些对比组织的分析阐明了后记忆的复杂性,揭示了它所包含的广泛经验以及外部因素在记忆构建中的作用。