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“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…
Patrimonios disonantes y memorias democráticas: una comparación entre Chile y España / Dissonant Heritage and Democratic Memories: a Comparison betwe…
2016
En este articulo se comparan las politicas de memoria en Chile y Espana. Se establecen similitudes y diferencias en el ambito de la gestion del patrimonio construido, a partir de algunos ejemplos de monumentos intencionales y no intencionales representativos del reciente pasado dictatorial. Se propone una lectura centrada en dos tipos de memoria publica “democratica” y se discute un modelo alternativo, que emerge de los dialogos academicos que conectan Espana y el Cono Sur. Palabras clave: Politicas de memoria, monumentos, patrimonio, Chile, Espana. This article compares politics of memory in Chile and Spain. It establishes similarities and differences in the management of built heritage, u…
La memoria de los verdugos de 1936 y la cultura de la impuni(bili)dad en la democracia posfranquista
2020
UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 Este texto se interesa por los efectos de la producción académica sobre la construcción social del victimario, y se centra en el caso de los victimarios de la guerra española de 1936 y su estatus en la cultura de la democracia posfranquista. Escoge dos obras de especialistas dirigidas al público amplio y rastrea a partir de ellas cómo el tratamiento de los victimarios se encuentra predefinido por un marco que exonera de partida a determinados posibles perpetradores al figurar en la nómina de intelectuales y artistas que conforman el canon cultural del siglo XX. El enfoque alternativo que propone consiste en combinar una hermenéutica de los testimonios de posi…
Perpetrators fathers: Perspectives from the sons and daughters of Argentinian repressors
2020
En el presente artículo propongo abordar la figura del perpetrador elaborada desde la mirada de los hijos e hijas de represores en Argentina, es decir la representación del “padre perpetrador”. Esta perspectiva viene a agregar un nuevo capítulo a la tradición sobre el represor que ahora es revisitada por sus propios hijos, en especial aquellos hijos/as desobedientes que reniegan y se distancian de sus padres. Nos interesa señalar la reciente creación en 2017 del colectivo Historias Desobedientes: Familiares de genocidas por la Memoria, la Verdad y la Justicia ya que constituye una nueva voz con sus peculiares aportes y demandas en las políticas y prácticas de la memoria. Si bien partimos de…
Mujeres zapatistas y producción videográfica en Chiapas
2018
Los primeros años de la rebelión zapatista coincidieron con la emergencia en México de un sector videográfico independiente, posibilitado por las nuevas tecnologías de grabación y edición, e inspirado en la lucha chiapaneca con sus redes de comunicación y solidaridad nacional e internacional. Antecediendo la era del Web 2.0 y las actuales redes sociales digitales, la producción videográfica sobre y desde el zapatismo fue una herramienta importante para la visibilización del conflicto y también de las transformaciones dentro de las comunidades chiapanecas, entre otras la autonomización y protagonismo de las mujeres. Este artículo explora la primera década de producción videográfica en torno …
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” as Bildungsromane
2018
Abstract In this essay, Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy” is read as a series of Bildungsromane that test the limits of that genre. In these thematically unrelated novels, characters reach critical points in their lives when they are confronted with the ways in which their respective childhoods have shaped their grownup expectations and professional careers. In each, the protagonist has a successful career, whether as a musician (The Unconsoled), a detective (When We Were Orphans), or a carer (Never Let Me Go), but finds it difficult to overcome childhood trauma. Ishiguro’s treatment of childhood in these novels foregrounds the tension between individual subjectivity and the formal st…
Post memory and cinematic affect in The Midwife
2017
The Second World War has proved a rich source of inspiration for fiction films worldwide. The Finnish fiction film The Midwife (Kätilö, Antti J. Jokinen, 2015) is aimed at an international audience with a story that takes place in the context of the Lapland War in Finland in 1944. The film tells of a romantic relationship between a local woman and a member of the German army, in a highly affective manner. This article argues that the film downplays elements that might have interested the national, or local, audience, and that it privileges affect over knowledge. To bring out the film’s transnational character, the article begins by analysing it in the context of national, or local, and glob…
Reimagining cultural memory of the arctic in the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq
2021
The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning “history,” “legend,” and “narrative,” is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. Godtfredsen and his literary and scientific collaborators have used the term as the title of graphic narratives published from 2009 to 2018, and focused on four moments or ‘snippets’ from Greenland’s history (from the periods of Saqqaq, late Dorset, Norse settlement, and European colonization). Adopting a fragmentary and episodic approach to historical narrativization, the texts frame the modern European presence in Greenland as one of multiple migrations to and settlements in the Artic, ra…
Live free or die motionless : Walking the migrant path from Italy to France
2018
This essay and the photographs examine visual traces of irregular mobility in the border landscape between Italy and France. The ruined buildings and objects witness decades of movement of undocumented people on this old migrant path across the mountains. By taking the theoretical concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) the essay argues that the Path of Hope can be thought of as a memory site through which the issues of migration in contemporary Europe can be seen in a more sustainable light. The ruins and discarded objects link memories of different places – including different border zones – in ways that allow us to critically examine borders as a practice – rather than as exis…
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity : Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
2019
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually understood as a practice that crosses spatial and communal boundaries. However, the ethics of solidarity also bridges past, present and future generations. Through the case of Archivio delle memorie migranti, this article demonstrates the significance o…