El que calla, otorga: relatos encriptados de la post-dictadura en ¡Bernabé, Bernabé! y El desierto y su semilla

Abstract

Many of the most important writings that had been produced during dictatorship periods in Latin America have included mechanisms of concealment that allowed them to elude both censorship and direct denounce. This mechanism, which emerged thanks to a hostile and dangerous production context, remained active in the subsequent decades when the de facto governments came to an end. In the case of the literature of the Río de la Plata, that type of writing gained certain prestige, but at the same time it became a cliché when producing texts about the problems and injuries dictatorial regimes have left as legacy.

Keywords

• post-dictadura
• Río de la Plata
• ocultamiento
• novela histórica
• alegoría