Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine

• Main Author: Paula Sombra
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Conserveries Mémorielles 2011-04-01
• Series: Conserveries Mémorielles : Revue Transdisciplinaire de Jeunes Chercheurs
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cm/844

This article, with the objective of sociologically reconstructing part of Argentina’s recent history, provides a theoretical and methodological reflection on the revolutionary militancy of the 1960s and 1970s. It critiques certain contemporary analytical and interpretative perspectives on the subject. This research is based on the use of oral histories as instruments of knowledge capable of elaborating today’s representations of the experience of political activism. It presents a way of thinking about the past via the reinterpretative construction of the biographies of two groups of people: one belonging to an armed organization, the Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), and the other to the concurrent, unarmed Grassroots Peronism (PB). Emphasis is placed upon the verbal configuration of the contemporary accounts that emerge from the recollections of collective memory, while still distinguishing between lived experience and declarations.