{"title":"Memory and Affective Discourses in Pepe Mujica, Lessons from the Flowerbed (Heidi Specogna, 2015) and El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Emir Kusturica, 2018)","authors":"Carmen Herrero","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087326","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT José “Pepe” Mujica has become a charismatic figure not only in Latin American politics but across the world. This article analyzes the representation of memory and affect in two recent transnational documentaries that portray Mujica’s personal and political life: Pepe Mujica, Lessons from the Flowerbed (Heidi Specogna, 2015) and El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Emir Kusturica, 2018). It explores how the films represent Mujica’s memories and past, focusing specifically on his political militance as a member of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros (MLN-Tupamaros) during the 1960s and 1970s, and his experiences as political prisoner of the military dictatorship. Drawing from memory and screen studies, this work investigates the narrative devices and cinematic strategies used to create meaning out of the past. Finally, this article outlines how Mujica’s discourses are embedded in these films to establish an affective and ethical connection between past and present that elicits a powerful emotional response.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"67 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47935129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Literature and Survival: Lessons from across the Border","authors":"S. Sosnowski","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087308","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This commentary, which reflects on literature and memory against the backdrop of Latin American Studies, is framed by moving from a global perspective to events in Latin America and then addressing the Southern Cone’s dramatic experience during the second half of the twentieth century. Civic-military dictatorships made radical changes in this region’s countries through their systematic pursuit of massive killings, disappearances, sustained repression, and the exile of tens of thousands of citizens. The pursuit of justice followed different paths after the collapse or surrender of each of the regimes. These ranged from bringing the top echelons of the military juntas to justice, to a plebiscite to forego such trials, or being forced to accept the presence of an emblematic dictator in the transition to democracy. As part of the reckoning with the long-lasting ramifications of the most brutal experience that the citizenry was compelled to endure, the denunciation of crimes and the concomitant politics of memory and oblivion took center stage. It underscores the need to learn ways of preserving and acting on the memories while moving forward and building democratic and participatory societies. It is also noteworthy that professors are encouraged to be discerning while teaching literature and culture, as the material included in a syllabus can make a difference to the indifferent, particularly in democratic societies where fascism has been making insidious headway","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"5 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46543425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourses of Memory Denial and the Concept of Dignity: The Graderías de la Dignidad Memorial at the National Stadium in Chile","authors":"Sol Rojas-Lizana","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087323","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2020, the Chilean Chamber of Deputies approved the project that sanctioned negacionismo; that is, the denial of the violation of Human Rights committed by state agents during the civic-military dictatorship (1973–1990). Using discourse analysis, the objective of this article is to examine the variants of negacionismo that emerged in media posts after the inauguration in 2015 of the traumascape Graderías de la dignidad within the National Stadium. I aim to contrast these discourses with the objectives promoted in the memorial and reflect on their ethical values. The results show that negacionismo reveals the ascent of a necropolitical discursive frame alongside a rhetoric of disenchantment with the political system that seems to impede any reflection on the value that social memory and memorials may have to healing a society and restoring the dignity of its victims.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"53 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-interpreting Southern Cone Memories","authors":"A. Fernandez, S. Sosnowski","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087306","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT “Re-interpreting Southern Cone Memories” presents a collective and multidisciplinary study of the multi-layered meanings and extended possibilities of memory related to the Southern Cone region of Latin America, with an emphasis on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. The group of articles featured in this volume privilege the enduring power of memory, which is shown as an educational force and a significant component in the construction of civil society. Moreover, they highlight how memory was distorted and threatened under dictatorial regimes, heightening the significance of memory and cultural frameworks. Notably, memory is not considered to be a selective sum of past events but as a force to be studied and, above all, as a tool for action. To remember, particularly in the context navigated by these studies, is to respond to what it brings forth and to act being aware of the role that culture gets to play in (re)building and sustaining society.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49217588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Una casa hecha de palabras”: Unsettling the Wounded Family Paradigm in Diario de una princesa montonera. 110% verdad (2012) by Mariana Eva Pérez","authors":"Daniella Wurst","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087331","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the Argentine dictatorship, the national imaginary anchored memory through a familial relation to loss, constituting a wounded family, that is, a broken lineage of family members of the disappeared whose biological kinship has become the motor for memory work and political activism. In this article, I explore the gendered implications of what it means to bear witness and be a member of the wounded family in the novel Diario de una princesa montonera. 110% verdad (2012) by Mariana Eva Pérez. As a daughter of disappeared parents, Pérez’s work constitutes a postmemory text that uses humor and genre experimentation to unsettle the solemnity and performative imperatives within the wounded family imaginary. Through a feminist criticism lens, I argue that the metafictional strategies of the text re-envision the possibilities of memory narratives and challenges that the conventional codes of remembering present within the Argentinian national imaginary.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"96 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44608409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arte, literatura y feminismos. Lenguajes plásticos y escritura en Euskal Herria","authors":"Aiora Sampedro Alegria","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087317","url":null,"abstract":"could be seen as just a glossary, exposes an epistemology rooted in oscillation and movement, and thus clearly opposed to Trelles, Le Roy and Lamar Schweyer’s. Also worth highlighting are the sections devoted to Virgilio Piñera in Chapters five (“1957: A Moment In and Out of Life”) and seven (“1965: Post-liminal Cuba”). In both cases, Fay’s close reading of short stories (“El viaje” and “La rebelión de los enfermos”) is astute, and successfully articulates how literature can contribute to meaningful debates on identity. The author also deftly analyses how Piñera—unsurprisingly a liminalist—avails of an absurd narrative to articulate his opposition to an increasingly prevalent discourse of absolutes, unanimity, perfectibility and teleology. Stephen Fay’s Liminality in Cuba’s Twentieth-Century Identity is a thought-provoking study that offers many novel insights which would be of benefit to academics interested in debates on Cuba’s identity. Given its gender and racial bias, however, hopefully either Fay himself or another scholar will complement this interesting study with a similar one focused on Afro-Cuban and female analyst-authors.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47477260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Po)ética de la desobediencia. Hijos de perpetradores por memoria, verdad y justicia","authors":"Verónica Estay Stange, Rodrigo Uribe Otaíza","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087322","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN En 2017, frente al negacionismo imperante en torno a las dictaduras del Cono Sur, surge el colectivo Historias Desobedientes. Familiares de genocidas por la Memoria, la Verdad y la Justicia. Fundado en Argentina, se extendió luego a Chile y a Brasil. El objetivo de este artículo es explicitar las íntimas contradicciones que los desobedientes han debido asumir y trascender para forjar el ethos característico del movimiento: una legitimidad ética y política que, estrechamente vinculada con la palabra, tiende también a configurar una poética (en el sentido general de conjunto de reglas que rigen el decir). Sobre la base de producciones artísticas de algunos desobedientes argentinos y chilenos, y recurriendo a la fenomenología de la memoria (Ricœur), así como a los conceptos de “posmemoria” (Hirsch) y “memoria transgeneracional” (Abraham y Torok, Tisseron), propondremos una reflexión sobre las condiciones que, en este caso, permiten la transformación de lo personal en político.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"38 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49421328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minori'ethage Memories and Deschooling Society in Verónico Cruz. La deuda interna (Argentina, 1988): A Decolonial Tribute to the Qulla Culture of Jujuy","authors":"A. M. Fernández","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087329","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the early 1980s, the Argentine filmmaker Miguel Pereira was a student at the London Film School. He was moved by Argentina’s social reality and the fact that young conscripts from Jujuy, and other local settings, were sent to fight in the Malvinas War. In 1988, he paid what I call a decolonial tribute to the Qulla people of Jujuy with his first feature film Verónico Cruz. La Deuda Interna. I argue that Pereira’s cinematic commemoration reinterprets sites of memory, such as the Argentine flag and the monument to General Belgrano, revealing their ambiguity. Adding another layer to the process of memorialization, it represents the warship ARA General Belgrano as a site of international conscience. it reflects on the deschooling of society undertaken by the dictatorship. Ultimately, it denounces the marginalization of the Qulla culture, despite the community’s significant contribution to their country.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"80 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resuenan memorias de la dictadura en las murgas de Montevideo y Rosario","authors":"J. Lucca","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087321","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN Las murgas son agrupaciones artísticas del carnaval sudamericano que plantean en sus espectáculos una cosmovisión crítica y satírica de cómo fueron vivenciados los principales temas, problemas y traumas sociales. Por ello, sus repertorios son espacios fructíferos para repensar la construcción de las memorias colectivas del pasado dictatorial uruguayo (1973–85) y argentino (1976–83). A partir del siglo XXI, la murga uruguaya se revitalizó con el impulso del fenómeno de Murga Joven, que fue apropiado como género de carnaval en muchas ciudades argentinas como Rosario. Por ende, se compararán los repertorios de las primeras murgas jóvenes de Montevideo (La Mojigata y Agarrate Catalina) y Rosario (Mugasurga, La Cotorra y Aguantando la Pelusa). También se analizará en sus primeros espectáculos el abordaje de las experiencias traumáticas dictatoriales para observar la trasmisión intergeneracional de un recuerdo que estos jóvenes no vivenciaron, pero que se apropian, critican y defienden como tal.","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"25 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47530672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liminality in Cuba’s Twentieth-Century Identity: Rites of Passage and Revolutions","authors":"Carlos Uxo","doi":"10.1080/13260219.2022.2087316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2022.2087316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45213758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}