Work-in-Progress talk: "Memories of Betrayal and Betrayal of Memory"

"Memories of Betrayal and Betrayal of Memory: Narratives of Defeat in Chile and Argentina" Yosa Vidal Collados, PhD candidate, Romance Languages, and 2022–23 OHC Dissertation Fellow "My dissertation questions the current cultural boom of fictional and non-fictional works on the politics of memory, characterized by a Manichaean rhetoric of heroes versus enemies, heroes versus traitors. Analyzing a testimony, a graphic novel, and a play, I argue that representations of betrayal, often evoking terrible forms of torture and suffering, allow us to critique a patriarchal and epic vision of the traumatic past in the Global South."