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Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling - Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina (Hardcover)
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Trauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling - Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina (Hardcover)
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Argentina's repressive 1976-83 dictatorship, during which an
estimated thirty thousand people were "disappeared," prompted the
postauthoritarian administrations and human rights groups to
encourage public exposure of past crimes and traumas. Truth
commissions, trials, and other efforts have aimed to break the
silence and give voice to the voiceless. Yet despite these many
reckonings, there are still silences, taboos, and unanswerable
questions. Nancy J. Gates-Madsen reads between the lines of
Argentine cultural texts (fiction, drama, testimonial narrative,
telenovela, documentary film) to explore the fundamental role of
silence-the unsaid-in the expression of trauma. Her careful
examination of the interplay between textual and contextual
silences illuminates public debate about the meaning of memory in
Argentina-which stories are being told, and, more important, which
are being silenced. The imposition of silence is not limited to the
military domain or its apologists, she shows; the human rights
community also perpetuates and creates taboos.
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