Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Mar 2022)
Poetry and Human Rights in the Argentina of the Nineties: the anthology El lenguaje de un gesto (1993)
Abstract
This article proposes to analyze poetic texts of the sons and daughters of political activists who disappeared due to State terrorism that were written and published within the framework of the Talleres Creativos del Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental (1982-1994), which were thought as a means of therapeutic elaboration of that postponed mourning that involves forced disappearance. These collective writing devices were intended to break with the social induction, promoted by the State, that genocide was an intimate and private problem that the victims had to process on their own; In response to this, the objective of the team of psychologists was to promote an open context so that, through artistic expression, family memories could be shared with a small community that had undergone similar experiences.
