From the Desert: the erosive forces of Fiction in Ciencias morales (Martín Kohan) and La mirada invisible (Diego Lerman)

  • Lara Segade Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet

Abstract

The novel Ciencias Morales (2007), by Martín Kohan, narrates life at Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires during Malvinas’ War. A meticulous and precise story reproduces the ambition of total control and the oppressive atmosphere inside the school. A series of silences and ambiguities, though, reveal the impossibility of such control and its illusory narration. Even when it’s not named straight, war structures and goes through the whole novel.  In this work we analyze  the senses that Ciencias morales produces regarding war and the transformations on them that take place in the film La Mirada Invisible (2010), by Diego Lerman. The aim is to research into the way in which some fictions of the 21st century put themselves according to state stories linked to biopower- as defined by Michel Foucault- to narrate the recent past: dictatorship, war and the link between them.

Keywords: Malvinas’ war; Kohan; fiction; control; resistance

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Author Biography

Lara Segade, Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet

Nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1981. Es Licenciada en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Desde 2009 es beneficiaria de una beca de posgrado del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y está realizando su doctorado en Letras con el proyecto  de investigación “Contar la guerra: configuraciones ficcionales de Malvinas en la cultura argentina”.

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Published

2012-06-08

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Segade, L. (2012). From the Desert: the erosive forces of Fiction in Ciencias morales (Martín Kohan) and La mirada invisible (Diego Lerman). Anclajes , 16(1), 73–87. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/anclajes/article/view/109

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2012): enero-junio

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