Haunting Argentina

Synecdoche in the protests of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9237117
AutoresKaren A Foss (University of New Mexico), Kathy L Domenici, Kathy Domenici
Ano2001
Volume87
Fascículo3
Páginas237-258
Data de publicação2001-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQuarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00335630109384335
OpenAlexW2050654751
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas26

Since April, 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires have marched every Thursday at 3:30, demanding information about their disappeared children. In this essay, we analyze the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche. Synecdoche allows the Mothers to manage the trauma of the disappeared but is less effective at generating ways for Argentina to move out of the limbo of the disappearances

Art · Linguistics · Metaphor · Metonymy · Sociology · Synecdoche · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies