Recent past and periodicals. An approach to reading the controversies about the argentine genocide (1983-2001)

Abstract

The present work addresses the relationship between the recent past and regular publications. The hypothesis is that the intellectuals in periodicals take a stand concerning to the past through the hierarchization of books and aesthetics that, at the same time, can be translated into political and ideological choices. In this sense, the interpretation the recent past done by intellectuals who had a dominant position within the intellectual field such as Beatriz Sarlo, Héctor Schmucler, María Teresa Gramuglio, will be addressed in order to try to reconstruct the itineraries of the controversies about the recent past, during the post-dictatorship. It is thought that, although during the democratic transition interpretations of the residual policies of the sixties were carried out, with the various scenarios of the postdictatorial period, they would gradually give way to other positions.