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Assignment:
Compare and contrast two of the following:
1. the weekly march of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, beginning in 1977;
2. the 2019 activist performance of LasTesis, "Un violador en el camino." Include the Keywords: dirty war, desparacido, political performative, memory, post-memory, neoliberalism.
How do these performances use bodies in public space to stake political claims?
What claims do they make? To whom, and how?
Draw on the idea of a "political performative" to make your argument.
Based on the Mothers of the Plazo de Mayo What do you understand by memory in the context of the dictatorships and the subsequent democratic processes in Argentina? What do you understand by post-memory in the framework of the democracies that followed the dictatorship in Argentina? How do you relate this o the desaparecidos of dictatorships?