Discuss the depiction of women and/or children in post-dictatorship cultural texts. Use the following film and book as primary reference of the essay. “Luis Puenzo, La historia oficial (1985) film” and ” Diamela Eltit, Los vigilantes (1994) prose”

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Discipline: Language studies

the following description will give  you an idea of the context behind the essay question. 

The most recent dictatorships in Argentina (1976-1983) and Chile (1973-1990) were also the most violent, characterised by the clandestine arrest, torture, murder, and disappearance of thousands of each country’s citizens. Given this extraordinary brutality, the early years of the transition to democracy were experienced as moments of liberation. Nonetheless, they were also periods of political compromise, wilful silence and official forgetting. In this social context, the cultural field played a crucial role in defining and sustaining demands for ‘memory, truth and justice”. 


for the essay you need to discuss how woman are portrayed in both film and prose, you can compare and contrast, the question it is very broad there is no right or wrong answer as long as you provide an ANALYTICAL explanation.  try to be less descriptive as possible in arguing your points. 

 I am going to give you some material which cam help you with secondary resourses etc etc


since it is a film also use the appropriate terminology when analysing a film for example this close shot angle has the effect to…. 


please refere to the resources  I  m giving you to make your points and if you used the also add them to the bibliography 

 thanks 


please use the following readings to make some  points for LA HISTORIA OFICIAL 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdnt2.19


Blommers, Thomas, ‘Social and Cultural Circularity in La historia oficial‘, Ciberletras 2 (2002), https://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v06/blommers.html, accessed 22/01/2023

Cisneros, James Ricardo, ‘Censura, violencia política y memoria colectiva: La historia oficial‘, Nuevo Texto Crítico, 10:19/20 (1997), 149-168

Forcinito, Ana, ‘De la Plaza al mercado: la memoria, el olvido y los cuerpos femeninos en Puenzo, Solanas y Aristarain’, Chasqui 29:2 (2000), 122-34

use the following links  for los vigilantes

McDowell Carlsen, Lila, ‘Inhospitable Text: Critical Dystopia in Los vigilantes by Diamela Eltit’, Letras Femeninas, 40:2 (2014), 31–46

Green, Mary, Diamela Eltit: Reading the Mother (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007) [chapter 5]

Selimović, Inela, ‘Mapping Urban Sites of Resistance in Diamela Eltit’s Los vigilantes’, Confluencia, 25:2 (2010), 122–130

Selimović, Inela, ‘Mapping Urban Sites of Resistance in Diamela Eltit’s Los vigilantes’, Confluencia, 25:2 (2010), 122–130


thanks you 

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