From Saints to Mere Mortals: The Desacralization of Disappeared Persons in the Work of Félix Bruzzone and Mariana Eva Pérez

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https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v48i3.5985

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memory fatigue, desacralization, profanation, postdictatorship, mourning and melancholy

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This article explores a recent development in Argentine post-dictatorship literature: the desacralization of disappeared persons. The narrative of Félix Bruzzone and Mariana Eva Pérez marks a substantial break with the production of the genre from the end of the dictatorship to the early 2000s, which is characterized by the sacralization of the disappeared within a highly idealized and sentimental rendering of the political militancy of the 1970s. Through a playful poetics of irreverence, transgression and profanation, Bruzzone and Pérez forge new modes of representing dictatorship at a moment when memory discourse was being appropriated by both the State and mass media.

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2026-03-15

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