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NARRATIVAS MARGINALES Y GUERRA SUCIA EN MÉXICO (1968 ...

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Los diques del tiempo by Salvador Castañeda, as well as the political prisoners’<br />

anthology Sobreviviremos al hielo by Manuel Anzaldo and David Zaragoza. In<br />

discussing the construction of official history, and the role of memory I analyze the<br />

novels Pretexta by Federico Campbell, and Muertes de Aurora by Gerardo de la<br />

Torre.<br />

These texts were published in the decade of the eighties as “fiction”.<br />

Nonetheless, they can be consider marginal for several reasons: 1) some of these<br />

writers were guerrilla fighters and not “intellectuals”, therefore they had to assault<br />

the lettered city (dominant discourses and state cultural institutions) in finding an<br />

in-between space (Silvano Santiago); 2) the novels of Campbell and de la Torre are<br />

not considered canonical, and have been ignored, even though both these writers<br />

belong to the lettered city; 3) all texts expose the mechanisms of authoritarian<br />

power, and the contradictions of representation, give voice to marginal<br />

subjectivities, and reveal alternatives to official history.<br />

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