Human and Non-Human Memories: Testimony, Poetic Justice and Animality in Voices of Chernobyl
This article analyzes Svetlana Alexievich's work Voices of Chernobyl from a literary perspective, focusing on collective memory, poetic justice, and the presence of the non-human animal. Drawing on concepts such as narrative memory (Ricoeur), collective memory (Halbwachs), silence and trauma (J...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades. Instituto de Letras "Alfredo Veiravé"
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/clt/article/view/9336 |
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| Sumario: | This article analyzes Svetlana Alexievich's work Voices of Chernobyl from a literary perspective, focusing on collective memory, poetic justice, and the presence of the non-human animal. Drawing on concepts such as narrative memory (Ricoeur), collective memory (Halbwachs), silence and trauma (Jelin), the animal gaze (Berger), the notion of the non-human (Latour), and the poetic justice (Nussbaum and Pellejero), testimonial monologues are examined as spaces where an affective memory is reconstructed and transcends the official stories. The analysis shows how this testimonial literature acts as a chronicle of the future, denounces institutional silencing, and recovers the forgotten voices, human and non-human, that inhabited the world of Chernobyl. |
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