Jauría

Documentary fiction and the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony

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ID12599554
AuthorsSonia Núñez Puente (0000-0002-2100-3230, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, corresponding author), Rocío Gago Gelado (0000-0003-4024-1143, Universidad Nebrija)
Year2022
Volume25
Issue5
Pages1395-1409
Publication date2022-03-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13675494221077289
OpenAlexW4221085440
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited15

In this article, we examine the various strategies that Jauría employs to bear witness to sexual violence. Jauría’s script is based on the official court transcripts of a trial for the gang rape of a woman at the San Fermín Festival in Pamplona, Spain. Our analysis focuses on how the narration of violence from new representational frameworks questions the hegemonic paradigms in which violence makes itself intelligible. We address how sexual violence testimony, in the form of documentary fiction, has the transformative potential of appealing to a shared responsibility with the audience. To that end, we analyze the mise-en-scène and conduct a long series of interviews with the play’s actors, director and playwright. To carry out this analysis, we use the framework of ethical testimony that we apply as an analytical model both to the mise-en-scène and to the interviews conducted, which have been categorized along four dimensions of analysis. This article contributes to the current studies around the transformative potential of sexual violence testimony and ultimately proves how the testimony’s ethical dimension can transform the discursive conditions in which this type of violence is typically interpreted

Art · Criminology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Sexual violence · Sociology · Transformative learning · Witness · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture

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