Open AccessSimulacra of the Victim “Mythological machine”, Violence and Power in the Testimonies of Alfredo Meza and Nancy Guzmán
Author(s) -
Daniuska González González,
Claire Mercier
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rassegna iberistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2037-6588
pISSN - 0392-4777
DOI - 10.30687/ri/2037-6588/2021/16/007
Subject(s) - mythology , dictatorship , power (physics) , simulacrum , testimonial , art , character (mathematics) , literature , ideology , humanities , art history , politics , aesthetics , law , democracy , political science , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , advertising , business
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.