The Letter as an Element in the Construction of a Memory of the Dictatorship in Contemporary Latin American Documentary
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This article aims to study the uses of the letter as a discursive strategy and narrative element in contemporary Latin American films directed by relatives of political militants and victims of the repressive apparatuses of the Southern Cone dictatorships. To this end, we analyze the links that interweave both the epistolary enunciation and the letter, in its archival dimension, with the cinema in the first person and the performative modes of the audiovisual creation. Likewise, we propose different models of the memory of the authoritarian past carried out by these films: the paradigm of resistance, the victim of State terrorism and the collateral victim.
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