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dc.identifier	ECF_article_5534
dc.title	Simulacra of the Victim. “Mythological machine”, Violence and Power in the Testimonies of Alfredo Meza and Nancy Guzmán
dc.contributor.author	González González Daniuska
dc.contributor.author	Mercier Claire
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2021/115/el-simulacro-de-la-victima/
dc.description.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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 44 \| Issue 115 \| June 2021
dc.issued	2021-06-29
dc.dateAccepted	2020-10-19
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-08-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2021/16/007
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	«Máquina mitológica de la víctima»
dc.subject	«Máquina mitológica de la víctima»
dc.subject	“Mythological machine of victim”
dc.subject	“Mythological machine of victim”
dc.subject	Poder
dc.subject	Poder
dc.subject	Power
dc.subject	Power
dc.subject	Simulacra
dc.subject	Simulacra
dc.subject	Simulacro
dc.subject	Simulacro
dc.subject	\| Testimonio
dc.subject	\| Testimonio
dc.subject	Testimony
dc.subject	Testimony
dc.subject	Violence
dc.subject	Violence
dc.subject	Violencia
dc.subject	Violencia

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

Daniuska González González Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile

Claire Mercier Universidad de Talca, Chile

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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.

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June 29, 2021

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Oct. 19, 2020

Submitted

Aug. 29, 2020

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

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