Mapping the Land of 'I-don't remember': For a Re-evaluation of La historia oficial
2004; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/bhs.81.2.5
ISSN1478-3398
Autores Tópico(s)Memory, violence, and history
ResumoThe 1985 film La historia oficial has been read by many critics as an exercise in smallscale melodrama, a limited and reductive gloss on the atrocities of the dictatorship that gripped Argentina between 1977 and 1983. In this article, I re-situate the film within the historical and cultural context of post-junta society, drawing on theories of trauma, memory and guilt to show that it is, rather, an acute, equivocal meditation on collective responsibility which foresees and foretells the judicial controversies of the 1980s, as well as the recent wrangling over kidnapped children. La historia oficial, I argue, plays on the referential instability of the trope desaparecido; and the clear-cut 'black and white' morality that the film seems superficially to espouse fades, on close analysis, to cloudiness, to 'grey'.La pelicula La historia oficial (1985) ha sido leida por muchos criticos como un ejercicio en tono de melodrama que reduce a escala personal y limitante las atrocidades del asi llamado Proceso al que...
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