Major X’s diary, a classified report of Discovering and (Re)Conquest of the Islands (in Carlos Gamerro’s "The Islands")
Keywords:
Falklands, Gamerro, diary, chroniclers, parody.
Abstract
The Islands (Carlos Gamerro, 1998) traces and reveals the discourses of power that have constituted the Argentine State. This paper analyzes the diary of major X, deformed by the psychic–damaged conscript who received the order of knowing it by heart during the war. Major X is the prototypical serviceman involved not only in the Falklands war but also in the so–called “dirty war”, i.e. repression under dictatorship that systematized the criminal circuit of kidnapping, torture and disappearance. His diary is a parody of the tales of chroniclers and explorers of the American continent and an ironical revision of republican historiography.Downloads
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Published
2015-10-14
How to Cite
Destéfanis L. (2015). Major X’s diary, a classified report of Discovering and (Re)Conquest of the Islands (in Carlos Gamerro’s "The Islands"). Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 44(Especial), 71-82. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2015.v44.50701
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Monographic
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