The desconstruction of a latin-american fiction, post dictatorship: another discursive strategy?
Post-dictatorship literature. Deconstruction of language. Memory and fiction.
The objective of this research is to analyze the memorialistic approach used in recent literary fiction that deals with the experience of the Chilean, Brazilian and Argentine dictatorships. The aim is to verify in the literary texts the narrative strategies and textual procedures that try to update and keep the discussion on the theme of the military regime active. La dimensión desconocida, by Chilean Nona Fernández; Cabo de guerra, by Brazilian Ivone Benedetti; and Cómo enterrar a un padre desaparecido, by the Argentinian Sebastián Hacher, are the analyzed works that search for this way of dealing with memory. In addition to these works mentioned, the research establishes a dialogue with other works such as Formas de volver a casa, by the Chilean Alejandro Zambra; La resta, by the Chilean Alia Trabucco; Noite dentro da noite, by the Brazilian writer Joca Reiners Terron; Kramp, by the Chilean Maria José Ferrada; and A ocupação, by Julián Fuks, which articulate with theories about literary language and studies on memory. The hypothesis of this work is that, in these recent narratives, it has been observed that memory, as a narrative element, has been used to update and maintain, above all, the agonistic character around the representation of the military period. From an expanded perspective of the notion of “dismantling”, we seek to demonstrate, for example, how the mnemonic account as a fictional narrative and testimony undergoes an inventive systematic disarticulation. Among the critics and theorists who guide the work are Paloma Vidal, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Peter Pál Pelbart, Josefina Ludmer, Beatriz Sarlo, Leonor Arfuch and Idelber Avelar.