Haunting Argentina: Synecdoche in the protests of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo |
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| Authors: | Karen A Foss Kathy L Domenici |
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| Institution: | 1. Professor in Communication and Journalism , University of New Mexico ,;2. Conflict‐Management Consultant at Domenici Littlejohn , Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| Abstract: | Since April, 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires have marched every Thursday at 3:30, demanding information about their disappeared children. In this essay, we analyze the protests of the Mothers by means of the metaphor of haunting and suggest that their symbols‐diapers as kerchiefs, slogans and sayings, circling the plaza, and marches‐enact a haunting by means of synecdoche. Synecdoche allows the Mothers to manage the trauma of the disappeared but is less effective at generating ways for Argentina to move out of the limbo of the disappearances. |
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| Keywords: | disappeared haunting Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo synecdoche social movement |
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