Writing Memory in Conflict and Post-Conflict: Hernán Valdés’ Tejas Verdes

• Autores: Tomás Albaladejo
• Localización: Out of the Prison of Memory. Nations and Future / Vladimer Luarsabishvili (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-9941-9619-9-1, págs. 53-66
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article deals with writing and literature as results of the activation of memory by the subject who has experienced imprisonment and sufferance as a consequence of dictatorial regimes. Hernán Valdés’ Tejas Verdes is analysed from the point of view of Cultural Rhetoric as to its discursive constitution taking into account the goals of persuading and convincing. The role of memory and writing of sufferance in conflict and post-conflict situations is examined as a core foundation for an enduring witness that is able to exert a strong perlocutionary influence in favour of the values of peace, liberty and justice so that this writing can be considered as a part of the heritage of Humanity.