Narrativas del yo desde las cárceles de la represión política argentina: los "Cuadernos" de Alicia Kozameh
Narratives of the Self from the Prisons of Argentine Political Repression: Alicia Kozameh’s Notebooks

Summary/Abstract: The object of this study are the narratives of the self written by the political prisoners in the prisons of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), as well as during the years of the Triple A (1973-1976). The texts are as diverse as their authors vary in terms of age, class, political party, etc. However, as a whole, they show the effort to preserve the identity and integrity of the inmates in the face of the military regime’s systematic plan to annihilate opponents, that is why it is possible to read them in an autobiographical key. In this paper, we focus particularly on the production of Alicia Kozameh, whose notebooks are both a solid project to record the self in circumstances of extreme adversity, as well as an interesting autobiographical exercise from two shores: the Cuadernos carcelarios (1977-1978), cryptic and fragmentary, outline a self against the deprivation of the self-reflexivity of the imprisoned subject, whereas the Cuadernos explicativos (2010) reconstruct that fractured self from a distance and the freedom of the present.

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