Argentine Sociopolitical Commentary, the Malvinas Conflict, and Beyond

Rhetoricizing a National Experience

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7906005
AutoresDavid William Foster (0000-0003-0686-518X, Arizona State University, autor correspondente)
Ano1987
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas7-34
Data de publicação1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Research Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0023879100016411
OpenAlexW2609036088
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas1

It was inevitable that after the demise of the series of military dictatorships that ruled Argentina so violently between 1976 and 1983, the return to democratic institutions would occasion an outpouring of the kinds of writing and cultural activities banned or censored by the generals. Movie distributors in Argentina today cannot keep up with the demand for films that could not be seen during these years (or were seen only with extensive and capricious cuts). Theaters are competing with each other to present works dealing with human rights violations and related themes. Television programming, which the military assiduously controlled, has now begun to evince some social consciousness. Meanwhile, the print media have filled bookstores and kiosks with myriad publications bearing witness to the attempt to recover a cultural tradition altered and fragmented by the so-called Proceso de Reorganización Nacional

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