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As Seen from the Other Shore: Uruguayan Culture / Saul Sosnowski
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The Role of the Political Parties in the Redemocratization of
Uruguay / Edy Kaufman 17
The Social Imaginary: Utopian Political Myths in Uruguay / Juan
Rial 59
The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Uruguay: Lessons for the
Future / Martin Weinstein 83
The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: The Hidden Wounds / Eduardo
Galeano 103
Popular Music: Censorship and Repression / Leo Masliah 108
On Suffering, Song, and White Horses / Mauricio Rosencof 120
The Repression of Uruguayan Culture: A Response to the People's
Response to the Crisis / Ruben Yanez 133
The Power of Memory and the Memory of Power / Carina Perelli
147
The Signs on the Table / Amanda Berenguer 162
From Silence to Eloquence: Critical Resistance or the Ambivalent
Aspects of a Discourse in Crisis/ Lisa Block de Behar 178
On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison Life / Hiber
Contneris 190
The Silences of Culture / Jose Pedro Diaz 196
Fiction and Friction in the Imaginative Narrative Written inside
Uruguay / Teresa Porzecanski 213
Postdictatorship, Democracy and Culture in the Uruguay of the
Eighties / Hugo Achugar 225
Redemocratization, Culture, Return from Exile (Is It Possible to Go
Home Again?) / Alvar Barros-Lemez 239
Uruguay, Inside and Out / Jorge Ruffinelli 251
Contributors 257
Saul Sosnowski is Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of the Office of International Programs at the University of Maryland.
oAn interesting and valuable contribution because it provides a vivid demonstration of the concern of UruguayOs intellectual elite with the question of democratic identity in the immediacy of the political moment itself... An original collection.O --Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Latin American Studies
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