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In Latin America, three significant themes have occupied memory studies since the 1980s and onwards: first, the creation of cultural memory around violence and even state terrorism in authoritarian and dictatorial regimes that includes debates on justice and the transgenerational and emotional character of the affectation, as well as the discourses of memory articulated from exile; secondly, the cultural practices and verbal arts of the original peoples that have made it possible to create cultural memories beyond the hegemonic one; and thirdly, the recent memory of the violence unleashed within the framework of neoliberal necropolitics that are linked to that generated by the drug cartels. In an exemplary way and based on literary, cultural and cinematographic studies, as well as from anthropology and historiography, this volume addresses the multiple contributions to the cultural memory of Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Peru, which have been made through tangible and intangible supports. Among the representations and supports analyzed are literary texts, a chronicle, long documentary and fiction films, memorials and countermemorials, territorial marks of memory, the nomenclature of urban spaces, songs and dances.