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Theses and Dissertations

2018

Arts and Humanities. Spanish language and literature

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(Re) Thinking The Past Through Performance: The (Re) Construction Of Militant Childhood Imaginaries In The Post-Dictatorship Of Argentina’S Cultural Production From 2003-2015, Stephanie Rubi Orozco Jan 2018

(Re) Thinking The Past Through Performance: The (Re) Construction Of Militant Childhood Imaginaries In The Post-Dictatorship Of Argentina’S Cultural Production From 2003-2015, Stephanie Rubi Orozco

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Burdened by the atrocities of Argentina’s coup d’état (1976-1982), many children of persecuted parents were forced to live as clandestine hideaways. In recent decades, adult survivors who experience the dictatorship as clandestine children have become primary protagonists, seeking to (re)construct past experiences through the creation of visual and textual productions. In attempt to (re)create their experience in hiding; such adults propose an alternative non-conventional image of a witnessing childhood under military rule as the child of prosecuted parents. For such children, life in secrecy meant having to find refuge from state officials seeking to eliminate their parents. It demanded strict …


Memorias Impensables: La Violencia, La Censura Y Las Verdades De Lurgio Gavilán En Memorias De Un Soldado Desconocido, Fritz Stefan Culp Jan 2018

Memorias Impensables: La Violencia, La Censura Y Las Verdades De Lurgio Gavilán En Memorias De Un Soldado Desconocido, Fritz Stefan Culp

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The present investigation embarks in previous and current battles for power to control narratives that influence individual and collective memory. As it considers the content of Lurgio Gavilán Sanchez’s autobiography Memorias de un soldado desconocido (When rains became flood), it reviews the methods used to silence counter hegemonic narratives and the formulation of official narratives which determine discourse on political violence – especially, which events are consigned to memory and which are pushed towards oblivion. Both memoirs and physical places of memory are placed in dialog with Michel de Certeau’s theory of historiography and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s ideas regarding the …