Open AccessMemory and the river
Author(s) -
Ana Basualdo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
comparative cinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2604-9821
DOI - 10.31009/cc.2019.v7.i13.04
Subject(s) - silence , forgetting , identity (music) , acronym , art , economic justice , history , sociology , art history , aesthetics , law , linguistics , philosophy , political science
This article takes the reader on a journey through Remembrance Park (the commemorative area in the city of Buenos Aires, which looks onto Río de laPlata, where so many corpses ended up submerged) which intertwines the time of horror with a time that wonders which monuments, which representationscan, must, should (?) be erected, practiced, to give substance, body, to what has been taken away. Questions that require us to initiate a dialogue with thefictional works of H.I.J.O.S. (Spanish acronym for Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence, which coincidentally also reads as“children” in Spanish) of the desaparecidos (“missing people”) that started to produce their own stories over the last 20 years.