Death and the Maiden

Dorfman, Ariel

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“…While writing this, I recalled that in 1992 I had attended a performance of A. Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden (Dorfman, 1991), and remembered that the drama raises the same issue, albeit more dramatically and eloquently. Despite the difference in the settings, there is a strong similarity to the denouements of both.…”

Section: The Parable Of the Doctor^mentioning

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Laughter among the Pear Trees

Feiner

1995

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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Section: The Parable Of the Doctor^mentioning

confidence: 93%

Laughter among the Pear Trees

Feiner

1995

Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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“…That's what I want. 1 In Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden, Paulina, a victim of state-sponsored torture, and her husband Gerardo, an eminent lawyer who has just been appointed to their country's truth commission, are forced to confront the differences between their ideas of truth, memory and justice when Paulina takes the man she believes to be her torturer hostage. Paulina's desire for the truth and the validation of her experience ultimately leads to an understanding of herself, and the play concludes with her facing her own reflection in the mirror.…”

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The Ongoing Struggle for Memory and Democracy in Post-War Guatemala

Carmody

2012

Cultural and Social History

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This article explores the link between processes of democratic subjectification and truth commissions. Looking at the two truth commission projects that operated in Guatemala in the 1990s, it argues that these commissions can and have been used as important spaces for the articulation of political identity and thus for making demands upon the future democratic society for the communities involved.

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“…Paulina regarded her own experience of torture as one of the major influences that had made her develop her 'idiosyncratic' worldview. In my attempt to grasp and contextualise the system of torture in Chile I read, amongst other things, some of the plays written by Ariel Dorfman, a famous Chilean writer whose work touches the issue of torture in a profound way (Dorfman, 1995a;1995b;. I asked Paulina to reflect and tell me about her experiences in Chile in light of Dorfman's writing.…”

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I am my own culture: the ‘individual migrant’ and the ‘migrant community’, a Latin American case study in Australia

Cohen

2004

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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This paper explores the implications of the multicultural doxa in Australia of presenting migrants as members of clearly defined 'ethnic/migrant communities'. By presenting the category of the 'individual migrant' the paper brings an example of the ways individuated case studies should and may be contextualised by the generic term of the 'migrant community'. Due to multicultural constructions and governmental funding schemes the 'community' emerges as an important site of struggle and negotiation of identities yet, as the individualised example I provide illustrates, the 'community' social reality is far from the celebratory image found within official multiculturalism. The paper discusses the complex relationship that Paulina, a Chilean political refugee in Adelaide, has with the local 'migrant community' in light of her experience and understanding of her Chilean identity and the migratory movement. The sociological significance of this individualised example lies in the attempt to capture the complexity of the ways in which subjective experiences may challenge but also contribute to our understanding of the notion of the 'migrant community'. Such a personal account should not be read as an objectified or generalised statement about the 'migrant community' but it reveals the many different ways in which subjective migratory experiences may lead to the emergence of new subjectivities that are embedded in the migratory movement and life in a new place.

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Death and the Maiden

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Laughter among the Pear Trees

Laughter among the Pear Trees

The Ongoing Struggle for Memory and Democracy in Post-War Guatemala

I am my own culture: the ‘individual migrant’ and the ‘migrant community’, a Latin American case study in Australia

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