Memory as a tool of (re)construction: The identity restitution of appropriate children during the last Argentine dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Sucari, Ana Laura
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/36432
• topic: Memoria ”“ Identidad ”“ Restitución ”“ Apropiación; Memory – Identity – Restitution – Apropriation; Memória – Identidade – Restituição – Apropriação

The appropriation of children was a systematic and generalized practice of the last civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983). This article focuses on the ways in which –personal, family, social– memories operate in the processes of identity restitution. In particular, it seeks to study the intrinsic relationship between memories and identity with the aim of analyzing the elements and discourses that influenced the construction and reconstruction of the memories of the restituted people, with special emphasis on the prevailing socio-political situation at the time of each restitution. Through the use of oral history, the life histories of Tatiana Sfiligoy, Gonzalo and Matías Reggiardo Tolosa and Pablo Javier Gaona Miranda are investigated. Thus, the work is stuctured around the following questions: How did each person (re)construct the memory of their own history from the restitution process? What discourses contributed to memory processes? How did social memory operate in each case? Throughout the article we will explore how new signifiers are incorporated during restitution processes, which imply a reconstruction of memories and, therefore, a transformation of identity