O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto

The article approaches the aporetic topic of the forced disappearance in the context of military authoritarianism in Brazil, primarily setting the problematic character of the restitution in the case of the political “desaparecidos” deriving from the impossibility of the legal category of “restituti...

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Main Author: Roberto Vecchi
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade de Brasília 2014-01-01
Series:Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=323130679008
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description The article approaches the aporetic topic of the forced disappearance in the context of military authoritarianism in Brazil, primarily setting the problematic character of the restitution in the case of the political “desaparecidos” deriving from the impossibility of the legal category of “restitutio ad integrum”. The historical palimpsest to be thought in this perspective is the case of the Guerrilla of Araguaia that was completely erased from the maps of the Brazilian history. The case opens the discussion on the concept of restitution in the contemporary theoretical debate. It is configured similar to the act of author, inscribed in a perspective of ethical subjectivity, similarly in this sense to what happens with another key concept of contemporaneity: the witness. Literature can be assumed in this perspective as a fertile field through which rethinking restitution. The literary case considered in the article is the novel K., by Bernardo Kucinki. Explicitly assuming a fictional pact, it makes possible to subtract – from a destruction without ruins – the precarious but possible memory of the traumatic past of the forced disappearance.
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
dictatorship
araguaia guerrilla
bernardo kucinski
title O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
title_full O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
title_fullStr O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
title_full_unstemmed O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
title_short O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto
title_sort o passado subtraido da desaparicao forcada araguaia como palimpsesto
topic dictatorship
araguaia guerrilla
bernardo kucinski
url http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=323130679008
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