The Documentary Remains of the Perpetrator: Images and Texts

A tendency to approach the past from the interpretative framework of memory at the expense of the classical historiographical approach emerged during the last decade of the 20th century in Western societies. This phenomenon was called memory boom and its raison d’être was related, on the one hand, t...

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Authors: Cárcel Ejarque, Irene, Monsell Corts, Juanjo
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/140491
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/140491
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2022.i65.02
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Perpetrators
Perpetradores
Traumatic memories
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Summary:A tendency to approach the past from the interpretative framework of memory at the expense of the classical historiographical approach emerged during the last decade of the 20th century in Western societies. This phenomenon was called memory boom and its raison d’être was related, on the one hand, to the belated acceptance of the survival of traumatic memories in all the subjects involved in regimes or episodes of perpetration of mass violence.