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Fiction or death: Novels of the Children of the Detained-disappeared as Vehicles for Mourning

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Resumen: El presente articulo propone una lectura de las novelas escritas por los hijos de detenidos-desaparecidos argentinos como instrumentos de duelo. A traves de la ficcion como testimonio, el lector deviene testigo de la vivencia de la catastrofe del narrador, lo que resulta en un acto de rememoracion central en el duelo hecho a traves de la literatura. Las novelas que analizamos aqui,  Los topos de Felix Bruzzone y  Diario de una princesa montonera de Mariana Eva Perez, constituyen un cruce de caminos de testimonios: el testimonio heredado de los padres desaparecidos, el testimonio de crecer como hijos de desaparecidos, y el testimonio creado en el lector a traves del acto de la lectura. Palabras claves: duelo, ficcion, testimonio,rememoracion, desaparecidos. Abstract: The present article proposes an understanding of the novels written by children of the Argentinean detained-disappeared as instruments for mourning. Through fiction as testimony, the reader bears witness to the narrator’s living within the catastrophe of the detained-disappeared, resulting in an act of remembrance that is at the very center of the work of mourning through literature. The novels that we analyze here, Los topos by Felix Bruzzone and Diario de una princesa montonera by Mariana Eva Perez, constitute a crossroads of testimony: the inherited testimony of the disappeared parents, the testimony of growing up as children of the disappeared, and the reader’s testimony created in the act of reading. Key Words: mourning, fiction, testimony,remembrance, disappeared.