Militancy and motherhood: Rhetoric in oral testimonies of women persecuted by the DIPPBA

Authors

  • Laura Bonilla Neira CONICET-UBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1014

Keywords:

women, ethos, pathos, testimonies, oral archive

Abstract

Within the context of the study of the "archives of repression" and, more specifically, from a rhetorical and discursive perspective, this article is aimed at characterising the rhetorical dimensions of ethos and pathos in testimonies of women under custody of the Buenos Aires Police Intelligence services (DIPPBA). Its main goal is to delve into the construction of women's self-image —within the framework of their role as military members and as mothers— as well as their emotional journey according to their own testimonies against the backdrop of state persecution by Argentinian security forces. This paper rests on a linguistic approach to the notions of ethos and pathos as examined from a topical viewpoint, considering both the perspectives of rhetorical argumentation and in-depth interviews as biographical material. The corpus presented in this work consists of three recorded interviews with women arrested during the Conintes Plan detailing their period of militancy, their time in prison and some reflections on their role as women within the organisations to which they belonged. These oral testimonies were collected by the archive management and preservation programme of the Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM). Among the findings made from those disparate stories was the construction of a militant ethos distinguished by a tension between individual and collective experience, as well as an emotional construction described as a duality in emotions between militant pride and fear as embodied in motherhood. Similarly, a memoir appeared to be divided between the account of the experience of discrimination in gender relations and, at the same time, the desire of protecting one's own organisation's reputation.

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Author Biography

Laura Bonilla Neira, CONICET-UBA

Magíster en Semiótica y Licenciada en Español y Literatura de la Universidad Industrial de Santander. Candidata a Doctora en Lingüística por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires con una beca otorgada por el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Docente de la Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. El tema de investigación principal es discurso político y la argumentación en plataformas digitales en las campañas del plebiscito sobre el Acuerdo de paz en Colombia de 2016. También, investiga sobre el discurso de las mujeres en los informes y el Archivo oral de la Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (DIPBA) custodiado por la Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (CPM). Hace parte del grupo de investigación Cultura y Narración en Colombia (CUYNACO) y del Grupo de Investigación en Archivos de la Represión (GIAR).

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2024-01-24

How to Cite

Bonilla Neira, L. (2024). Militancy and motherhood: Rhetoric in oral testimonies of women persecuted by the DIPPBA. Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 12(25), 35–56. https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1014

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Vol. 12 No. 25 (2023): Mujeres en guerras, perspectivas discursivas

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