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Title: Voices of the Survivors: Testimony, Mourning, and Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (1983-1995) by Liria Evangelista ISBN: 0-8153-2917-2 Publisher: Garland Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.95

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Summary: Intriguing Subject, But Lacks Coherent Message
Comment: If an author cannot concisely summarize what, essentially, the basic message of his or her project is, then I would seriously question the worth of the work in question. And an acceptable strategy to accomplish that summarization is not trussing up the lack of a coherent point with fancy words and numerous citations and references that amount, essentially, to academic name-dropping. This, unfortunately, is how Liria Evangelista spends the vast majority of her book.

Original thoughts are few and far between. "As so and so says," or "Utilizing the framework of such-and-such" is the norm. The book can at best be described as rather inauspicious, at worst as a self-congratulatory academic inside joke.

Evangelista sets out to examine works of art (written, recorded, and filmed) created in the aftermath of Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976-1983, the euphemistically self-dubbed "Process of National Reorganization."

This is definitely not to say that the subject is unworthy of further exploration. I think it is the very rarest of subjects (if any at all) that does not merit further explanation. And Argentina's military dictatorship had a profound effect on that nation's citizenry, civil society and national self-image, as Evangelista acknowledges.

But Evangelista never forges a point, never makes a generalization - no matter how broad - of what connects or does not connect the novels, films and rock songs she examines. Indeed, she offers no formal conclusion whatsoever. Her book just dead-ends, as do her futile attempts to bring clarity to a time of national turmoil.