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Testimony, responsability and inheritance. Political militancy and affectivity in Argentina during the 70s
Abstract
This article analyses the broad presence of testimonies related to the recent past in Argentina. Contrary to the interpretations that criticise the use of personal narratives for the study of recent history (especially the militant experience of the seventies), the text argues that the contribution of the testimony is key to the interpretative elaboration of that experience. In support of this interpretation several theoretical tools are used (Foucault, Agamben, Ricœur). At the same time, the text concludes with an analysis of a segment of a testimonial narrative about how militancy acted to produce transformations in personal relationships as an integral part of the revolutionary struggle but did so with a logic that ended up subordinating the sphere of affectivity to the logic of armed militancy.
