Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editorial Note ix
4. As Seen from the Other Shore: Uruguayan Culture (Repression, Exile, and Democracy) 1
5. I Contexts
6. The Role of the Political Parties in the Redemocratization of Uruguay 17
7. The Social Imaginary: Utopian Political Myths in Uruguay (Change and Permanence during and after the Dictatorship) 59
8. The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Uruguay: lessons for the Future 83
9. II Culture and Power
10. The Dictatorship and Its Aftermath: The Hidden Wounds 103
11. Popular Music: Censorship and Repression 108
12. On Suffering, Song, and White Horses 120
13. The Repression of Uruguayan Culture: A Response to the People's Response to the Crisis 133
14. The Power of Memory and the Memory of Power 147
15. III Literature and Repression
16. The Signs on the Table 162
17. From Silence to Eloquence: Critical Resistance or the Ambivalent Aspects of a Discourse in Crisis 178
18. On Spatial and Temporal Exile: Expatriation and Prison life 190
19. The Silences of Culture 196
20. Fiction and Friction in the Imaginative Narrative Written inside Uruguay 213
21. IV The Shores of Exile
22. Postdictatorship, Democracy, and Culture in the Uruguay of the Eighties 225
23. Uruguay: Redemocratization, Culture, Return from Exile (Is It Possible to Go Home Again?) 239
24. Uruguay, Inside and Out 251
25. Contributors 257