Writing with the remains of the real: brief genealogical route towards the literature of the concentration camp ; Escribir con los restos de lo real: breve genealogía del testimonio concentracionario latinoamericano

In addition to the problems related to its generic classification, Latin American testimony has had to face other conflicts such as the presence and use of aesthetic values in said stories, the complex conception of truth that these scriptural expressions assume and the language-trauma relationship manifested in the testimonies of the post-dictatorship. This article proposes a brief and limited genealogical route with the purpose of locating and reordering those foundations addressed by literary criticism that have attempted to design a typology of the genre without reaching a univocal criterion. This, in order to trace the elements that have outlined the testimonial production of the last century related to the stories of memory (post-dictatorial or concentrationary). The work assumes a theoretical-critical perspective and addresses, among others, the following items: process of “institutionalization” and re-institutionalization of testimony taking into account the variations that gender experiences during these periods; central problems associated with testimony and the memory paradigm; and the possibilities of literary creation in the construction of a concentrationary testimonial story (Su paso, by Carlos Bischoff) in the face of the problems associated with the strategies of representation of trauma in this type of narratives. ; Además de la problemática relacionada con su clasificación genérica, el testimonio latinoamericano ha tenido que enfrentarse a otros conflictos como la presencia y el uso de valores estéticos en dichos relatos, la compleja concepción de la verdad que asumen estas expresiones escriturales y la relación lenguaje-trauma manifiesta en los testimonios de la postdictadura. Este artículo propone una breve y acotada ruta genealógica con el propósito de localizar y reordenar aquellos fundamentos abordados por la crítica literaria que han intentado diseñar una tipología del género sin llegar a un criterio unívoco. Esto, con el fin de rastrear los elementos que han delineado la producción ...