Resumen de Deconstructing Traumatic Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: Graciela Sacco’s Photographic Installations
Introduction The so-called "dirty war' in Argentina, most prominent from the 1970s to the 1980s, produced some of the worst human rights violations in 20th century Latin America.1 The official history of the dictatorship recognized by the Argentine government during the decades following the return to democracy has failed to bring full justice to most of the guilty parties. The 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López who was an important witness in the trial against Miguel Etchecolatz, the former Director of Investigations of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police reveals that at the level of law and justice, there remains significant repression that remarkably resembles the years of dictatorship (Bell 2). According to Stevens, "marianismo," rooted in the image of the Virgin Mary (María), is a traditional, idealized notion of femaleness imposed on women which shapes acceptable behavior and standards for Latin American women in particular (99). [...]we can understand that this gendering through an extremely violent "male"3 patriarchal society had severe implications for the captive, so-called subversive female during the dictatorship in Argentina.
