Pruebas del pasado: Aproximaciones retóricas a las memorias difíciles

Résumé

Contemporary political disputes over the past are often characterized as a struggle between the historical facts and the narratives that are constructed about those facts. This presentation returns to the classical rhetorical tradition to think about the relationship between memory and rhetoric and the relationship between facts and accounts. The talk is grounded in a concrete example of efforts to remember a displaced community and the interplay between material facts and communal narratives.