Abstract

CARDOSO SANCHEZ, Manuel  and  RAMIREZ RIVERA, Bianca. Narrating the violence: detention and militancy in the story of a former political prisoner. Estud. - Cent. Estud. Av., Univ. Nac. Córdoba [online]. 2020, n.44, pp.143-163. ISSN 1852-1568.

Abstract The narratives produced around violent events have particular characteristics, at the same time that they are shaped by the experience of the person who is narrating. When using oral history as a tool to interview protagonists, it is observed that the chronological structure, the significant events and the functionality that they give to orality are different from each other. However, its uniqueness will be built based on the social dimension, as well as the consensus and dissent they express towards a collective discourse. This paper aims to analyze the narration of Sara Waitman, former detainee of the last Argentinean civil-military dictatorship, whose experience is inserted in contexts of repressive, structural and symbolic violence. Particularly, we will observe how his political militancy links past and present in a narration that, with the uniqueness of a personal story, has communalities with other stories of this type.

Keywords : oral history; narration; clandestine centers of detention; former detainee; militancy; Argentinean dictatorship.

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