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- Title
Espectros en el archivo, aspectos mediáticos del trauma guatemalteco en El material humano de Rodrigo Rey Rosa y La isla. Archivo de una tragedia de Ull Stelzner.
- Authors
Spuler, Roland
- Abstract
Guatemala was one of the first countries in which enforced disappearance was used as a tool of terror against the civilian population. 45,000 desaparecidos are estimated during 36 years of civil war. It is a pending issue, causing unresolved struggles in collective memory. Many people accused of participating in the killings occupy important positions and not a few members of the elite supported the military government during the civil war. This problem and the impunity are themes in the novel The human material of Rodrigo Rey Rosa and in the documentary La isla of Uli Stelzner. Novel and film treat the archive as a uncanny place of memory. A transmedial analysis highlights the specific features of the Guatemalan case in two entangled versions and medias. Both works show that even in times cf “posmemoria” and progressive mediation the ‘battle’ of memory continues.
- Subjects
LA isla: Archivos de una tragedia (Film); STELZNER, Uli; EL material humano (Book); ROSA, Rodrigo Rey; GUATEMALAN Civil War, 1960-1996
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 65, p107
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Article