Les usages de l’oubli dans la fiction narrative
La sombra del jardin de Cristina Siscar
The use of forgetting in narrative fiction
La sombra del jardin by Cristina Siscar
Author(s): Orianne GuySubject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: literature;forgetting;dictatorship;exile;Argentina
Summary/Abstract: L’une des stratégies des dictatures est d’affecter le mental des citoyens autravers du mensonge et de l’oubli. En Argentine, le régime dictatorial « ignorait» la disparition de 30 000 individus. Pour fuir la terreur, des Argentins se sont exilés, comme Cristina Siscar qui a mis en scène, dans La sombra del jardín (1999), une héroïne exilée en France. .One of the strategies of dictators is to play mind games on citizens through lies and the destruction of memory. In Argentina, the dictatorial regime ‘ignored’ the disappearance of 30, 000 people. To flee the terror, Argentineans exiled themselves,including Cristina Siscar who, in La sombra del jardín (1999), created a heroine exiled in France.
Journal: ALKEMIE. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 14
- Page Range: 203-225
- Page Count: 23
- Language: French
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