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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Lyman L. Johnson, editor. Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America. (Diálogos.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 354. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.95.
We can not replicate the richness of history in our classrooms. Yet, the contrast feels particularly stark between the vitality and vivacity of so many Latin Americans as they have gone about their daily lives, and what I am able to convey to students in the United States. The people "down there" come up short, lacking in what Americans think they ought to expect to find in human beings. It is difficult for students here to imagine regular people there as men, women, and children with hopes and aspirations, as human beings who search for order and legitimate authority, who have a sense that their lives are improving, that they are accomplishing something not only for themselves but for their society.	1
So it was that a strange feeling came over me as I read the essays in this book, imagining myself as one of my students. I was connecting to many of the individuals in these pages, to how they might be feeling, what they were thinking. It took me a while to figure out why. In these nicely crafted essays we encounter elite, middle-class, and plebeian Latin Americans who take their lives, their society, and their past seriously. Here are people who seek meaning in the ways they think about their former leaders, and in how they commemorate them. Traditions have value. Memories live. History matters. This volume will be an excellent companion reader for a wide array of courses on Latin America.	. . .

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