We Don't Need Another Hero: Queering Representations of Dissident Sexualities from the Recent Argentine Past

MOIRA PÉREZ

História da Historiografia

Edufop

Lugar: Porto Alegre; Año: 2014 p. 198 - 211

1983-9928

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }p.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif","Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei","DFGothic-EB"; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans","DFGothic-EB"; font-size: 12pt; } ​​ ​​The aim of this paper is to provide a view of the contributions that literary representations can offer to our understanding of the past, particularly in relation to subjects who occupied marginal positions in the time and place under study. Using as an example the case of queer subjects during the last military régime in Argentina (1976-1983), I will consider how their narratives are affected by some of the more recurrent tropes in historiographical representations, and how their approach through literature can serve as an invitation to multiply the potential of (his)stories about our past. In order to achieve this purpose, the paper starts by reviewing the notions of ?normal? or ?professional? historiography, following contemporary theorists and philosophers of history. Then it moves on to incorporate some of the contributions that a queer perspective can offer to historiography, focusing particularly on the notions of agency, spatiality, temporality, identities and methodology. As case studies or examples, I will mainly refer to three (hi)stories that illustrate the lives of queer subjects during that period: Mi Recordatorio [My Remembrance], by Malva (2011), El diablo en el pelo [The devil in the hair] (2003), by Roberto Echavarren, and La brasa en la mano [Embers in the hand] (1983), by Oscar Hermes Villordo. By way of conclusion, I will defend not a replacement or disdain of ?normal? historiography, but the multiplication, broadening and dislocation of sources and resources for the representation of the past: various subjects, forms, contents, and dynamics between one and the other, for the queering of historiography, and of history itself. Revista indizada en SCOPUS, Web of Science, CIRC, SCIMAGO (Q1), entreotros.@font-face{font-family:Batang;panose-1:2 3 6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1;mso-font-alt:바탕;mso-font-charset:129;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-1342176593 1775729915 48 0 524447 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Liberation Serif";panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman";mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}@font-face{font-family:Candara;panose-1:2 14 5 2 3 3 3 2 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:swiss;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073783883 0 0 415 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Bitstream Charter";panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;mso-font-charset:1;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}@font-face{font-family:"WenQuanYi Micro Hei";panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;mso-font-charset:1;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Lohit Hindi";panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman";mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:auto;mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}@font-face{font-family:"@Batang";panose-1:2 3 6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1;mso-font-charset:129;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-1342176593 1775729915 48 0 524447 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin:0cm;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;mso-hyphenate:none;tab-stops:35.4pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"WenQuanYi Micro Hei";mso-bidi-font-family:"Lohit Hindi";color:#00000A;mso-font-kerning:.5pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:HI;}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}