Testimony and Imagination:

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" Testimony and Imagination: "
Kenney, Georgeann E. Irlam, Shaun

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1113770
Doc. No	:	TLpq2386997906
Main Entry	:	Irlam, Shaun
	:	Kenney, Georgeann E.
Title & Author	:	Testimony and Imagination:\ Kenney, Georgeann E.Irlam, Shaun
College	:	State University of New York at Buffalo
Date	:	2020
student score	:	2020
Degree	:	M.A.
Page No	:	61
Abstract	:	History is a mixture of fact and fiction blended together beyond recognition. Laura Stoler in her book Along the Archival Grain investigates the archival process and attempts to “distinguish between what was ‘unwritten’ because ‘everyone knew it,’ what was unwritten because it could not yet be articulated, and what was unwritten because it could not be said” (Stoler 2009). She argues that official colonial archives are products of state machines that “reproduce those states themselves” (Stoler 2009). [H]istory is built on the official documents and letters that are left behind for us. Cathy Caruth also investigates [H]istory, but she tackles the question in reverse. Rather than exploring the official colonial trail, she begs the question of how to retrieve a history whose advent is “constituted by the way it disappears from consciousness, that eludes or erases memory in the very act of creating new events” (Caruth 2013). In authoritarian regimes – such as the Argentine dictatorship from 1976-1983, on which this paper is centered – censorship is used as an oppressive tactic to keep citizens in line. When the military junta took control of the Argentine state, they simultaneously took control of the historical record.
Subject	:	Authoritarian
	:	Comparative literature
	:	Derrida
	:	Dirty War
	:	Literature