Resumen de Memoria geográfica en el testimonio chileno: Isla Dawson
Loreto López, Maria Teresa Johansson Márquez
This article analyzes the relationship between geographic space and memory in the testimonies of political prisoners, that relate the experience of detention in the prison camp of Dawson Island, during the Chilean civic-military dictatorship. The article proposes that these testimonies elaborate a geographical memory, manifested in memories of the contact and relationship that the prisoners established with the geographical context in one of the southernmost areas of the world. Here, memories of the violence, with which the climatic and topographic conditions of the island collaborate, appear alongside experiences of subjective liberation and discreet autonomy, manifest in memories of contemplation of nature, noticing a beneficial dimension in that remembrance.
