Trauma, taboo, and truth-telling : listening to silences in postdictatorship Argentina /
Nancy J. Gates-Madsen.
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
- Critical human rights .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: listening to silences -- Tortured silence and silenced torture in Eduardo Pavlovsky's Paso de dos -- Filling in the space of disappearance: Eric Stener Carlson's I remember Julia -- voices of the disappeared -- "The shape described by their absence": disappearance in Juan José Saer's La pesquisa -- Silencing the politics of identity: from Elsa Osorio's A veinte años, Luz to Telefe's Montecristo -- The memory of forgetting in Luisa Valenzuela's La travesía -- Fallout of the memory "boom": seeing and not-seeing the ex-ESMA in Jonathan Perel's El predio.
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Dictatorship--History--Argentina--20th century. Collective memory--Argentina. Collective memory and literature--Argentina. Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--History--Argentina--20th century. Disappeared persons--History--Argentina--20th century. Human rights--History--Argentina--20th century.