Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Raiter, Alejandro
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1965-1976
1983-2011
Idioma
spa
Extent
330 p.
Derechos
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Formato
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Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
1965-1976
1983-2011
Abstract
This thesis uses Discourse Analysis in order to examine and understand the subjectivities of the historical actors who were striving towards transforming Argentine society through armed struggle and, also, to examine the basis upon which the dominant discourse regarding activist experience in the sixties and seventies is founded after the military dictatorship. In order to do so, it approaches discourses produced and read by the generation of that time, which we call time of revolution (1865-1976) and the representation of these experiences in discourses produced starting from the democratic restauration (1983-2011), a time we call time of democratic utopia.
Following linguistic tradition, we analyze two moments that are idealized as syncronic. In the first part of the thesis, we analyze the first moment: time of revolution. There, we approach different discursive genres: documents from PRT-ERP (Revolutionary Party of Workers – Revolutionary Army of the People), a political-military Argentine organization, together with novels produced and read by left-wing activists in differerent manifestations. Throughout this analysis, we could study signs and arguments that were part of the subjectivities here analyzed, all of them falling under the domain of the ideological sign that defines this time: “revolution”. In PRT-ERP‟s discourse, the lead actor of this deed is the guevarist “new man”. This enunciator gives its ideal activist many attributes, which are condensed in the signs “proletarian/proletarization”, “sacrifice”, “discipline”, “hero”, and “revolutionary morality”. On the other side, the enemy is that who does not match this model: the “petite bourgeois”. Both constructions are made by numerous locutors yet one single enunciator, who must tell right from wrong, what is revolutionary from what is not: the “Party”.
In the second part of this thesis (second syncronic moment), we analyze discourses produced after the experience of State terrorism and democratic restauration. The time we call time of democratic Utopia. The center of these discourses is not located around the ideological sign “revolution” but in the presence of two signs that were absent in the discourses we analyse in the first part: “utopia” and “democracy”. These ideological signs not only imply a certain interpretation of the recent past –a past of impossible utopias and not of “inexorable” revolutions-, but also a call to the present and the future: the only possible and desirable utopia is “democratic utopia”. The sign “revolution” is approached as much by academic accounts as it is by the testimonies of the main subjects of these experiences. Both types of discourses, with different positions of enunciation that are frequently opposite to each other, finish transforming the revolutionary accounts into stories of the past, into “utopias”. This is why, in the time of democratic utopia, we can only “talk about” or “study” the “revolution” –we cannot make it- and we can only do these things in a single way: with references evaluated in a negative manner.
Following linguistic tradition, we analyze two moments that are idealized as syncronic. In the first part of the thesis, we analyze the first moment: time of revolution. There, we approach different discursive genres: documents from PRT-ERP (Revolutionary Party of Workers – Revolutionary Army of the People), a political-military Argentine organization, together with novels produced and read by left-wing activists in differerent manifestations. Throughout this analysis, we could study signs and arguments that were part of the subjectivities here analyzed, all of them falling under the domain of the ideological sign that defines this time: “revolution”. In PRT-ERP‟s discourse, the lead actor of this deed is the guevarist “new man”. This enunciator gives its ideal activist many attributes, which are condensed in the signs “proletarian/proletarization”, “sacrifice”, “discipline”, “hero”, and “revolutionary morality”. On the other side, the enemy is that who does not match this model: the “petite bourgeois”. Both constructions are made by numerous locutors yet one single enunciator, who must tell right from wrong, what is revolutionary from what is not: the “Party”.
In the second part of this thesis (second syncronic moment), we analyze discourses produced after the experience of State terrorism and democratic restauration. The time we call time of democratic Utopia. The center of these discourses is not located around the ideological sign “revolution” but in the presence of two signs that were absent in the discourses we analyse in the first part: “utopia” and “democracy”. These ideological signs not only imply a certain interpretation of the recent past –a past of impossible utopias and not of “inexorable” revolutions-, but also a call to the present and the future: the only possible and desirable utopia is “democratic utopia”. The sign “revolution” is approached as much by academic accounts as it is by the testimonies of the main subjects of these experiences. Both types of discourses, with different positions of enunciation that are frequently opposite to each other, finish transforming the revolutionary accounts into stories of the past, into “utopias”. This is why, in the time of democratic utopia, we can only “talk about” or “study” the “revolution” –we cannot make it- and we can only do these things in a single way: with references evaluated in a negative manner.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales