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  • Bibliography

  • Edited by Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, Mónica Szurmuk
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
    Published online:
    05 November 2015
    Print publication:
    12 November 2015, pp 575-618

  • Summary

    This chapter begins with the female body and "feminine" writing as a locus of rebellion in the 1980s. It discusses the reflections on trauma and defeat the emerged after the dictatorships, the historical revision of the revolutionary endeavor that took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The chapter describes the postmemory reflections of the "children of dictatorship", a narrative mode characteristic of memory's turn in the new millennium. In each successive moment, the tenor of memory's performance changes. Particularly in the 1980s, under the rigid surveillance of dictatorship, the body became a metaphorical ground zero from which to decolonize hegemonic discursive constructions. The Latin American dictatorships that spanned the latter half of the twentieth century sought to destroy not only leftist political projects, but also the subjectivities and life-worlds linked to those projects.