When cultures divide: Writing public history in Latin America

Marivic Wyndham; Peter Read

doi:10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.34

When cultures divide: Writing public history in Latin America

Marivic Wyndham, Peter Read

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We two Australian public historians recently published a history of memorials in Santiago, Chile, to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialisation in Chile since the Transition to Democracy. Our different upbringings and experiences (one a migrant from Cuba, the other Anglo-Australian) produced disagreements as to how we should interpret the memorializations. In particular, the foundational narratives of Cuba and Australia in which we were raised affected our differing interpretations. The article explains these differing foundational narratives and then cites examples of textual disagreements and how we resolved them. We believe that this challenging interrogation of lifetime values improved the monograph and may offer insights for other cross-cultural collaborations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	34-53
Number of pages	20
Journal	Public Historian
Volume	40
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.1.34
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018

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