@article{Ghosh_2021, title={Fictional and Non-fictional Narrative Representations of State Repression and Terror in the Dirty Wars in Argentina (1976-1983) and Chile (1973-1990)}, volume={2}, url={https://bcsdjournals.com/index.php/ijecls/article/view/258}, DOI={10.47631/ijecls.v2i4.258}, abstractNote={<p>I argue that fictional representations of the Dirty Wars in Argentina (1976-1983) and Chile (1973-1990) allow for the possibility of forgiveness and healing, while non-fictional representations such as testimonies and conversations do not. Focusing on a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts, I analyze why and how state repression inflicts trauma and violence upon its victims and survivors. The novels I analyze are <em>no place for heroes </em>by Laura Restrepo, <em>El Angel’s Last Conquest </em>by Elvira Orphée and <em>Bedside manners </em>by Luisa Valenzuela. The non–fictional works I analyze are <em>Nunca Mas: A Report By Argentina’s National Commission on Disappeared People, That Inferno: Conversations of Five Women Survivors of an Argentine Torture Camp, Circle Over Death: Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo </em>and <em>We, Chile: Personal Testimonies of the Chilean Arpilleristas</em>. The theoretical underpinnings of my arguments are Paul Ricouer’s <em>Memory, History, Forgetting</em> (2004) and Avishai Margalit’s <em>The Ethics of Memory </em>(2002), both of which attempt to think through the relationship between forgetting and forgiving.</p>}, number={4}, journal={International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies }, author={Ghosh, Ritwik}, year={2021}, month={Jul.}, pages={42-55} }