Aída Díaz de León is visiting professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at St. Lawrence University.Marina Llorente is professor of modern languages and literatures at St. Lawrence University.Marcella Salvi is associate professor of Italian and Spanish at St. Lawrence University.

• Part I: Introduction The Politics of the Past and the Fragmentary Present: Locating Memory in Spain and Latin America, by Aída Díaz de LeónPart II: From the Repertoire to the Archive: Memory in Chile after PinochetChapter 1: Performing Memory and Democracy in Chile, by Liliana TrevizánChapter 2: Memory in Chile: A Conversation on Democracy. Interview to Ricardo Brodsky Baudet, Executive Director of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile (December 3, 2013), by Oscar D. Sarmiento and Liliana TrevizánPart III: Literature as Media of Memory in Spain and Latin AmericaChapter 3: Everything Is Coming to Light: Re-appearance of Lost History in Carmen Martín-Gaite’s El cuarto de atrás, by Marcella SalviChapter 4: Exile and Erasure: A Poetic Reconstruction of the Spanish Past in Antonio Crespo Massieu’s Elegía en Portbou, by Marina LlorenteChapter 5: Translation as a Means of Preserving Historical Memory in Spain, Nicaragua, and Chile, by Steven F. WhiteChapter 6: Narrativa e ilusión: Argentine Historical Memory in Una sombra ya pronto serás by Osvaldo Soriano, by Mallory N. Craig-KuhnPart IV: The Struggles of Memory in the Global Market: Venezuela and MexicoChapter 7: The Children of 1989: Resurrecting the Venezuelan Dead, by George Ciccariello-MaherChapter 8: Depoliticization, Historical Memory, and Resistance to Obliviousness: The Case of Feminicide and the Cotton Field Memorial in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, by Martha I. Chew Sánchez and Alfredo Limas HernándezPart V: The Palimpsest of Memory: Reconstructing Race, Culture, and Religion from Colonial Times to the Present in Peru, Mexico, and the Dominican RepublicChapter 9: Mystic Ringing of Stone Bells: A Case of Annihilation of Cultural Memory in Peru, by Beatriz Carolina PeñaChapter 10: The Memory of Black Womanhood in Mexico: La Mulata de Córdoba, by Selfa A. ChewChapter 11: Casting Traitors and Villains: The Historiographical Memory of the 1605 Depopulations of Hispaniola, by Juan José Ponce-Vázquez

This excellent collection of essays reveals new and meaningful connections between the ways in which Spain and Latin America have been coming to terms with recent and not-so-recent violent pasts. The book not only makes the case for a Trans-Atlantic approach to memory studies in the Spanish-speaking world, but is also evidence of the specific contribution that literature, culture, and cultural criticism can make to the complex social processes that define individual and collective relationships with the past.