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 PoderSimulacraSimulacro«Máquina mitológica de la víctima»| Testimonio“Mythological machine of victim”PowerTestimonyViolenciaViolence


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