Ontología del encierro en relatos de una red testimonial iberoamericana

Abstract

The scriptural genesis of certain Latin American testimonies is conditioned by violence of prison confinement of the authors themselves. The testimonies were written by persons who were often militants and intellectuals committed to liberationist causes during dictatorial times.Their writing is conceived from, on, and around the condition of enclosure which permeates considerably the texts and establishes a kind of “ontology of the enclosure” where common denominators reveal the traumatic situa-tion: the conditions of confinement, the process of torture, the craving for freedom, the veracity of the witnessed and the existential disquisitions of the products of captivity. This study will try to repair the damage caused by this “enclosure” with the testimonial scriptural process in texts of Lilián Celiberti (Uruguay); Lucy Garrido (Uruguay); Carlos Liscano (Uruguay); Mauricio Rosencof (Uruguay); Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro (Uruguay); Alicia Partnoy (Argentina); Alicia Kozameh (Argentina); Susana Jorgelina Ramos (Argentina); Nora Strejilevich (Argentina); Graciela Lo Prete (Argentina); Eduardo Jozami (Argentina); Carlos Marighella (Brazil); Alípio de Freitas (Portugal/Brazil); Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo (Frei Betto) (Brazil); Jorge Montelaegre (Chile); Sergio Bitar (Chile); Aníbal Quijada Cerda (Chile); and Hernán Valdés (Chile).In examining these confinement narratives and their “prison ontology”, an account will be given of a certain Ibero-American testimonial network shaped by intellectuals, writers, religious persons, journalists and militants who have been able to crystallize through writing their experiences of cap-tivity in the Southern Cone.Within this network, the following common denominators can account for the religions and the connections between the agents of the network: 1) the genetic awareness of the authors, 2) the linguistic inhibition in the confinement, and 3) the writing as resistance.