Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-7859
Date of Award
5-14-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
World Languages and Cultures
First Advisor
Fernando Reati
Second Advisor
Carmen Hermann
Third Advisor
Victoria Rodrigo
Fourth Advisor
Annette Cash
Abstract
It is estimated that between 15,000 and 30,000 people were disappeared (kidnapped and never seen again), during the military dictatorship that gripped Argentina in the late 1970s. Many of these “desaparecidos,” as they are often called, and other militants who were killed while attempting to fight this regime, were survived by their children or “Hijos”. In this thesis, I examine five works (three novels and two films) produced by Hijos in order to demonstrate how they have used their art to express the complex and often conflicting feelings they experienced as a result of their parents’ abductions and/or deaths. I also utilize several psychological concepts to contextualize these experiences and elucidate how the creation of these works may have served as a way of processing their trauma.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/22667766
Recommended Citation
Strong, Samantha J., "Speaking the Unspeakable: How Children of Militants During Argentina's "Dirty War" Have Used Literature and Film to Process Trauma." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/22667766
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