De Malvinas a Cromañón. Notas de la narrativa sobre Malvinas para leer Cromañón

Abstract

The fire that occurred on the night of December 30, 2004 during a rock concert held at a venue popularly known as “Cromañón” (in the Balvanera neighborhood, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina) gave rise to a wide range of stories and representations present in Argentine culture. This article wants to explore the narrative of the massacre through the literary production about the Malvinas, considering the features of the texts of this traumatic event of the civil-military dictatorship that had a great presence in the cultural representations of the following forty years of democracy, and above all the theoretical and conceptual tools to address said corpus. For this, the literary works about Cro-Magnon are presented first; In the second instance, it is proposed to explain how it is possible to read these texts through Malvinas (then, the links between both events are explained, the main theoretical and critical studies on the Malvinas narrative are reviewed, the points of contact between these are shown. analysis, etc.); Finally, different conclusions are reached on these joint readings that open new questions.