Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: In Guatemala, perhaps more than in any other country, truth commissions emphasized narrative testimony to document the abuses of the past. However, this documentation has focused on the victims and the crimes against them. The recuperation of the lives of the victims through narrative is another way to restore memory and transform it into history. The life and work of Irma Flaquer, a courageous Guatemalan journalist, were documented as part of the Inter American Press Association's Unpunished Crimes Against Journalists project, As a result, under the auspices of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, the Guatemalan government took responsibility for the journalist's disappearance and reopened the case. The reconstruction of memory through narrative techniques not only resulted in remembering history, but in changing it.
Source: Revista de História
Author: June Carolyn Erlick
Institution: Harvard University
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2123635615