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Susan Sontag
Harold Pinter
AUGUST 1990, LATE WINTER in the southern hemisphere. Read the first page
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A LEXICON OF TERROR: ARGENTINA AND THE LEGACIES OF TORTURE
A New Book by Marguerite Feitlowitz (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998)
Review by Ana María Amar Sánchez, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
How can one narrate the unspeakable? The unimaginable, the horror?.....The Argentine military dictatorship that devastated that country between 1976 and 1983 vividly actualizes the difficulties of narrating an understandable tale of horror.
This book by Marguerite Feitlowitz, Preceptor in Expository Writing at Harvard, explores a point that has seldom been examined in the analysis of this period; the way in which, precisely, language and terror were linked, the use of language to further terror and the legacy left by that vocabulary in testimonies and memory, the remnants of a new lexicon that gave different meanings to words and changed them forever.....Feitlowitz studies and analyzes this use of language as a means of making horror more "natural" and as a significant component in the construction of a supposed "normal reality."
The investigation is made up of five chapters; the preface and introduction inform the reader about the way in which Feitlowitz developed her research and provides the historical-political context of the dictatorship. Both the preface and the introduction are valuable to two different types of audiences: Argentine readers, who know the facts, but will find a new focus in this text, and foreign readers who will find basic, but not banal, information with which to orient themselves.
Each of the chapters concentrates on some aspect in which this relationship between terror and language is manifested in this military regimes.....Based on her investigations and on extensive interviews with survivors and family members of the disappeared, the author reconstructs the "lexicon of terror" as expressed in slogans, magazines, propaganda, and daily language.....This work--which provides outstanding documentation--concludes with a chapter about the "Scilingo Effect": the impact of the words of a repentant torturer who in 1995 publicly confessed on television about his participation in death flights.....
Feitlowitz' book is particularly important because it foxcuses on an aspect of the dictatorship that has barely been examined, and it does so with seriousness and rigor. But, moreover, it is important because this aspect--the perverse use of language--allows one to glimpse the daily horror, made banal, in which the Argentine populace lived for almost a decade.....Finally this book which analyzes the power of the word, the perverse force that words acquired in the hands of state terrorism, arrives on the scene to powerfully incorporate its word with all the other discourses that have been struggling in the last years to eliminate the forgetting, the silence, the amnesia, that those in power would yet once again impose on this history of horror, this legacy of death.
Ana María Amar Sánchez is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. END
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