Narrativas Marginales Y Guerra Sucia En Mexico (1968 1994).

Narrativas marginales y guerra sucia en Mexico is framed between two grassroots social movements that represent watershed events in Mexicos political life: the Student Movement of 1968, and the Zapatista guerrilla uprising in 1994. This dissertation addresses the issues of political marginality, state violence, representation of torture and political imprisonment, construction of official history, and individual and collective memory. To shed light on the issue of political imprisonment, I analyze the novel ¿Por que no dijiste todo?, and the prison dairy Los diques del tiempo by Salvador Castaneda, as well as the political prisoners anthology Sobreviviremos al hielo by Manuel Anzaldo and David Zaragoza. In discussing the construction of official history, and the role of memory I analyze the novels Pretexta by Federico Campbell, and Muertes de Aurora by Gerardo de la Torre.