Ciudad Juárez, ‘ni exótica ni emocionante’: (Re)memoración de las víctimas desde los espacios de violencia en la poesía de Arminé Arjona y Carmen Julia Holguín Chaparro

iMex. México Interdisciplinario/Interdisciplinary Mexico

Ana Gabriela Hernández González¹ 

[1] University of New Mexico;

关键词: border;    memory;    poetry;    resistance;    victims;   

DOI  :  10.23692/iMex.9.7

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article explores how Arminé Arjona and Carmen Julia Holguín Chaparro –poets from Chihuahua– use poetry to recover voices of victims and to resist violence in Ciudad Juárez. Both authors appropriate spaces of violence and (re)memorize them as a sites of victims memory. Thus, these authors include versions of victims in Juarez cultural memory through their poems. Spaces of violence, used by Arjona´s and Holguín Chaparro´s poetry, are physical, symbolic, and metaphorical (Seydel 2014: 82). They enunciate the voice of citizen-victim as a discourse of resistance against violence and recreate a personal lyric voice where victims tell their story, evoke acts of violence and personalize/symbolize them as sites of (re)memory. Arjona’s and Holguín Chaparro’s poetry recreates specific acts of memory as narratives of recovery, countermemory and trauma narratives. Thus, their poetry becomes a political act of recalling that gives voice to the victims and is opposed to the official narratives and their historical spaces.

【 授权许可】

Unknown