The following article aims to investigate the wounds and scars of the bodies tortured by the Chilean dictatorship, taking as a paradigmatic case the torture of Karin Eitel narrated by Pedro Lemebel, to explore, both the status of truth and archive that they entail, and therefore, their ability to form an embodied testimony, namely, a memoir of the body itself. As well to explore what to do with those marks and that memoir, that is, we seek to question the function of that memoir based on the hypothesis that it is not focused on the past, fetishizing the wounds, but on the future. In other words, the thesis to be defended will be that memoir must work as evidence of the past, using the embodied testimony to show that a violence happened to/in the body, but its focus will be to prevent it from happening again, ensuring a promise and a future.
Keywords:
Embodied testimony, Archive, Memoir, Fetishization of the wound
Santibáñez Aravena, V. . (2024). The body and its memory Wounds and scars of the dictatorship. Nomadías, (32), 129–143. Retrieved from https://claridad.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/73643
