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From 1975 to 1983 Argentina was marked by internal conflicts which surpassed those lived through in its entire history. The rise of the military power started during the last period of Isabel Peron’s government and continued through the military takeover from 1976 to 1984. The excuse to overthrow the weak Argentine democracy was to end the ‘monstrous’ guerrilla fighters who wanted to destroy the foundations of Western and Christian society in Argentina. It did not take long for the media and society in general to support the military’s point of view that these ‘revolutionaries’ had to be destroyed (annihilated) so that it wouldn't contaminate the rest of the country. As a result, they were persecuted and exterminated in inhuman and ‘monstrous’ ways by the military and other members of the Argentine security forces. The extermination of thousands of Argentineans was possible by the implementation of the figure of the ‘desaparecido’ [the disappeared]. These measures allowed the military government to keep detainees in secret locations in terrible living conditions until they decided to kill them. Fortunately, some of these detainees survived and began to share their traumatic experience with the country since the return of democracy in 1984. Testimonies such as the CONADEP (1983) [National Commission for the Disappearance of People], compiled as ‘Nunca más’ [Never Again] (1984), removed the blindfold that had fallen on Argentinean society during the time of the dictatorship. It is the aim of my paper to analyse the way in which testimonies (written and oral) have contributed not only to unveil the truth but also, to give a voice to those silenced – that is revealing the monstrosity of official history and replacing it with a (re)writing that better reflects the atrocities of one of the darkest periods in Argentine history.
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Between 1976 and 1983, state terrorism ruled Argentina. After the coup d’état the regime crushed political, social and student organizations – many of which were associated with the guerrillas. As a result, these people were persecuted, incarcerated and exterminated in brutal ways by the military and other members of the Argentine security forces. Many children, whose parents were persecuted and killed, were made prisoners or went into exile. They suffered a similar fate as their parents. Human rights violations during this period had repercussions worldwide. As a result, a great deal of literature was produced at home and internationally. However, little attention has been given to the children who were born in jail, in exile, or went as children into exile with their parents. Yet, despite of their parents’ political involvement they did not become politically active. The aim of this work is to examine how the political persecution of the children’s family members affected their growth and their attitudes toward life in Argentina and in Canada as a place of exile.
Engaging Common Ground
This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony.
The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.
Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.
The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.
Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.
Engaging Common Ground
This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony.
The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.
Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.
The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.
Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.