Identity Resolution in the Daughters of Post-Memory: Filmic Narratives of the Twenty-First Century

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Published: Sep 17, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53556/rec.v51i0.19
Keywords:
postmemory, political militancy, the New Man, identity resolution, guerrilla groups, women in film

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Nohora Viviana Cardona
Cleveland State University

Abstract

This study analyzes the documentary films Los rubios by Albertina Carri (2003), Papá Iván by María Inés Roqué (2004), and Pizarro by Simón Hernández (2016), in which the main characters are daughters of guerrilla leaders in Colombia and Argentina. Carri, Roqué, and María José Pizarro, who provides the voice and gaze that articulates Hernández’s film, research their identity quests, trying to understand the conflicts between fatherhood and their progenitors’ political militancy. The critical framework includes Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory and Beatriz Sarlo’s questioning of this concept.

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Vol. 51 (2018)
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Author Biography

Nohora Viviana Cardona, Cleveland State University

She has a degree in Literature from the Universidad de Valle, where she also completed a master's degree in Colombian and Latin American Literature. Specialized in university teaching at the Santiago de Cali University, she also completed a master's degree with an emphasis on Hispanic culture and literature at the University of Ottawa, where she also obtained her doctorate in the same modality. She has worked as a teacher and researcher at Universidad del Valle, University of Ottawa, Southern Utah University and Cleveland State University.