Abstract

MONKEVICIUS, Paola C. Beyond the “Protocol”: Afro-Argentinian Women and the Public Production of Memories. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2021, n.39, pp.261-280.  Epub Mar 31, 2022. ISSN 1794-2489.  https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n39.12.

This article intends to explore the Afro-Argentinean production of memories and oblivions, when it is constituted as a tool in the struggle to be acknowledged by leader and activist women at the public scene. We consider narratives articulating the past as ways of discursive self-representation through which women fight over hegemonic senses permeating their modes of remembering, from both outside and inside the heterogeneous Afro-Argentinean collective. Based on the ethnographic work carried out in various meetings -commemorative for the most part-, we observe distinct overlapping ‘layers’ of meanings of the past. Those layers contain Afro-female memories, built around a private subalternized world. When the time is come to establish frameworks legitimated by truth, those memories find new spaces for interlocution, enabling and empowering them to confront ‘official’ versions.

Keywords : memories; Afro-Argentinean people; women; subalternization..

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