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FERNANDEZ, Luciana Belloni. “The language of love is not spoken": clothing and its inscriptions in Aparecida. CELEHIS [online]. 2021, n.41, pp.11-20. ISSN 2313-9463.

Aparecida (2015) -the chronicle? Autobiography? Novel?- written by Marta Dillon, starts when the author receives a call from the Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense. She is informed that the remains of her mother, Marta Taboada, who went missing in 1976 during last Argentine military dictatorship, have been found. These findings are accompanied by another one of crucial importance: the clothes and accessories that Taboada possibly wore on the night of her kidnapping and during her captivity. I propose that clothing in this novel constitutes an intelligible object, an ambiguous language, exclusively feminine which, unlike the remains, leads the main character to a rediscovery and a creation of her mother’s identity. On the other hand, it also directs her to an experimentation of what the author calls “body-to-body motherhood”. Finally, the clothes anticipate and enable one of the central events of the novel: the mother-daughter farewell. In order to analyse the communicational power of objects in general and clothing in particular, this research considers the main concepts made in this regard by semiologic (Saussure, Trubeckoj, Barthes, Eco, Lurie, Calefato) and sociological studies (Baudrillard, Davis).

Palabras clave : Body; Clothing; Language; Marta Dillon; Motherhood..

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