Narrating trauma: hybrid scriptures of disasters

Authors

  • Márcio Seligmann-Silva UNICAMP

Keywords:

Testimony. Trauma memory. Trauma. Politics of memory. Brazilian dictatorship

Abstract

The text proposes a reflection about some of the main issues concerning the gesture of testimony, highlighting the aporias that mark the act of witnessing. Departing from the idea that testimony only exists under the sign of its collapse and impossibility, the essay stresses the dilemmas raised from the convergence between the individual task of the trauma storytelling and its collective component. In the historical catastrophes, as in the cases of genocide or mass violent persecution of particular segments of the population, traumatic memory is always a search for a compromise between the work of individual memory and another, more collective work. Testimony is analyzed as a part of a complex “politics of memory”.

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Author Biography

Márcio Seligmann-Silva, UNICAMP

É professor livre-docente de Teoria Literária na UNICAMP e pesquisador do CNPq. É autor de Ler o Livro do Mundo (Iluminuras, 1999), Adorno (PubliFolha, 2003) e O Local da Diferença (Editora 34, 2005); organizou os volumes Leituras de Walter Benjamin: (Annablume/FAPESP, 1999; 2ª. edição 2007), História, Memória, Literatura: o Testemunho na Era das Catástrofes (UNICAMP, 2003) e Palavra e Imagem, Memória e Escritura (Argos, 2006) e coorganizou Catástrofe e Representação (Escuta, 2000).

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Published

2008-06-30

How to Cite

Seligmann-Silva, M. (2008). Narrating trauma: hybrid scriptures of disasters. Gragoatá, 13(24). Retrieved from https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/33162

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 24 (2008): Brazil and Africa: trajectories, faces and destination

Section

Literature Articles

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