Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 44 | 115 | 2021
Research Article | Simulacra of the Victim

Simulacra of the Victim

“Mythological machine”, Violence and Power in the Testimonies of Alfredo Meza and Nancy Guzmán

Abstract
This article analyses the testimonies Así mataron a Danilo Anderson by Alfredo Meza and Ingrid Olderock. La mujer de los perros by Nancy Guzmán, stressing facticity, that is the symbiosis between verifiable and imagined elements, which implies a renewal of the character of testimonial literature and enables a reading of these works beyond the format of journalistic investigation. This factitious receptacle allows to evince the common direction of both texts: in dissimilar contexts of politic violence, such as the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Hugo Chávez Frías regime in Venezuela, power sets in motion a “mythological machine of the victim”, with the aim of creating subjectivities related to their ideology and with the its purpose of making eternal a truth that ends up being a simulacrum of it.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 29, 2020 | Accepted: Oct. 19, 2020 | Published June 29, 2021 | Language: es

Keywords Power • Simulacra • Violence • Testimony • “Mythological machine of victim” • Simulacro • Poder • Violencia • | Testimonio • «Máquina mitológica de la víctima»

Copyright © 2021 Daniuska González González, Claire Mercier. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/16/007


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