AFTERLIVES OF THE DISAPPEARED: SCHOLARSHIP ON STATE TERROR AND THE “DESAPARECIDOS”

A literature review discusses the following scholarly works about state terror and the "desaparecidos": (1) Gabriela Fried Amilivia's State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America: Transmissions across the Generations in Dictatorship Uruguay, 1984-2004 (Amherst: Cambria Press 2016. 244 pages); (2) Ulrike Capdepón's Vom Fall Pinochet zu den Verschwundenen des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges. Die Auseinandersetzung mit Diktatur und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Spanien und Chile (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2015, 376 pages); (3) Ceferino Reato's Disposición final. La confesión de Videla sobre los desaparecidos (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2012, 316 pages); and (4) Andrew M. K. Sheinin's Consent of the Dammned. Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War (Gainesville etc: University Press of Florida, 2012, 217 pages).