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Vitullo, Julieta. Ficciones de una guerra. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine Argentinos. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3JM2B05

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Uniform TitleFicciones de una guerra. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine Argentinos
NameVitullo, Julieta (author); Montaldo, Graciela (chair); Braga-Pinto, Cesar (internal member); Martinez, Tomas (internal member); Giorgi, Gabriel (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2007
Other Date2007-10 (degree)
SubjectSpanish and Portuguese, Falkland Islands War, 1982--Literature and the war, Falkland Islands War, 1982--Motion pictures and the war, War in literature, Motion pictures and war, Falkland Islands
Extentvii, 201 pages
DescriptionI examine a corpus of literary and audiovisual narratives, in both fictional and documentary forms, that revolve around the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain for sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. My analysis takes into account, among others, texts by Rodolfo Fogwill, Carlos Gamerro, Jorge Stamadianos, Mart??n Kohan, Rodrigo Fres??n, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Jorge Luis Borges, and films such as Trist??n Bauer's Blessed By Fire and Jos?? Luis Marqu??s' Fuckland.
Most of the fictions produced over the last twenty-five years have been successful in eluding the nationalist prerogatives and the idea of the just cause that permeate political discourses, testimonies or historical essays, and have managed to pose complex responses to the questions of the war's aftermath. I examine the conflict of the Falklands utilizing Michel Foucault's idea of biopower and Giorgio Agamben's contributions and reformulations on this subject. I also analyze it in the context of Karl Von Clausewitz's theory of war and the most recent attempts to reconsider the role of war on the global map of international relations by Paul Virilio, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri.
The fictions of Malvinas/Falklands propose the impossibility of narrating an epic of this conflict by telling stories of survival, mocking the nationalist prerogatives and dismantling the very idea of national identity. At the same time, these fictions are pervaded by the weight of the father-State law and they represent a predominantly masculine universe. Epic is the world of the elderly, the ancestors, the fathers, and many of the fictions analyzed here turn to narratives of impossible or problematic paternities. I argue that by questioning the father-State law, these fictions question the validity of the epic narrative as well.
As an epilog, this work also includes a travel chronicle of the researcher to the origin of her object of study. In this journey, the fictional space, created from imagination, is confronted with a personal, intimate narrative, in the physical space of the Falkland Islands.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 188-192).
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3JM2B05
LanguageSpanish
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameNjNbRU
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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