INVESTIGADORES
MANZANO Adriana Valeria
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
'We don't want your revolution': Conflicting Relations between Youth Countercultures and the New Left in Argentina, 1966--1976
Autor/es:
MANZANO, VALERIA
Lugar:
Washington, DC
Reunión:
Congreso; 122nd Annual Meeting, American Historical Association; 2008
Institución organizadora:
American Historical Association
Resumen:
Notwithstanding
counterculture organizers and new leftists self-represented themselves
as revolutionaries; to the early 1970s it was apparent that they did
not want the same revolution. This paper explores how, after some years
of tactical convergence in the late 1960s, new leftists and
counterculture organizers articulated competing notions of revolution,
which involved different imageries of masculinity. By examining
counterculture magazines and rock lyrics, this presentation shows how
musicians, journalists, poets, and rock and roll audiences reacted
against the increasing youth politicization in the frame of parties or
guerrilla movements. Conversely, by a meticulous reading of leftist and
student press, internal memos of guerrilla movements, and oral
interviews, the paper analyzes how new leftists reacted against youth
countercultures, particularly what they considered their
petit-bourgeois individualism, lack of national consciousness, and
ultimately lack of true revolutionary spirit. The paper contends that
in their efforts to criticize the others cultural and political
stances, counterculture organizers and new leftists sought to
counteract what was becoming a hegemonic representation of youth, which
chained political terrorism, drug abuse, and sexual deviancy, a
representation that ultimately informed the repression carried out by
the military during the last, and most dramatic, Argentine dictatorship
(1976-1983).