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  3. Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship
    • Cecilia Sosa, Received a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at School of Arts & Digital Industries, University of East London
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  • Publisher:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    20 November 2014
    ISBN:
    9781782043515
    9781855662797
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Monografías A
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    Literature, Area Studies, African Studies, African and Caribbean Literature, Drama and Theatre: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Monografías A
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    Co-winner of the Inaugural AHGBI Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation. The aftermath of Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983) has traditionally been associated with narratives of suffering, which recall the loss ofthe 30,000 civilians infamously known as the "disappeared". When democracy was recovered, the unspoken rule was that only those related by blood to the missing were entitled to ask for justice. This book both queries and queers this bloodline normativity. Drawing on queer theory and performance studies, it develops an alternative framework for understanding the affective transmission of trauma beyond traditional family settings. To do so, it introduces anarchive of non-normative acts of mourning that runs across different generations. Through the analysis of a broad spectrum of performances - including interviews, memoirs, cooking sessions, films, jokes, theatrical productions andliterature - the book shows how the experience of loss has not only produced a well-known imaginary of suffering but also new forms of collective pleasure. Cecilia Sosa received a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at School of Arts & Digital Industries, University of East London.

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