Writings of the self in current times

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https://doi.org/10.30973/inventio/2022.18.45/6

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writing, subject, identity, missing people, dictatorship, Argentina, modernity

Abstract

In the 1970s and 1980s, academic critique of notions of subject and identity reached its zenith. However, at the end of the 20th century, this last concept had not only been unable to be abolished, but was re-emerging with force. The groups fighting for their right to exist needed to configure a narrative of identity to differentiate themselves from others. But there are other causes that should be cleared up to understand the growth of interest in identity: technological developments have fostered self-representation and questions about identity. The notions of subject and identity have not disappeared, but neither can they be understood within the framework in which they were generated. In the following lines it is proposed that some autobiographical literary manifestations move away from the narcissistic impulse promoted by social networks through the screens, a thesis that has strongly burst into the current century.

Author Biography

  • Angélica Tornero, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Humanidades (CIIHU), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM)

    Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Humanidades (CIIHU), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM)

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Escrituras del yo en tiempos actuales

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2022-12-08

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