The Will to Heal : Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers

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u 209 Index abject, 32, 57, 63, 66–67, 7, 74, 27, 83n2; Mikhail Bakhtin on, 57–59, 60; Julia Kristeva on, 58–59, 60, 66 address, xviii, 62, 84–85, 99, 56, 59, 7 amnesia, xiv, , 8 Argentina: desaparecidos, 8, 80n3; diaspora, 47; Dirty War, xii–xiii, –2, 25–26, 37, 77n5, 83n6, 84n0; economic crisis in, 49; ESMA (Escuela Mecánica de la Armada/ Navy School of Mechanics), 26, 3, 4; Jews in, 26, 27, 37; Menem and, –2; Montonero Peronist Movement, 30, 34, 82n6; Nazis in, 25–26; Perón, Juan, 25; postdictatorship, –2, 25, 73, 80n; revolutionary movements in, 2; Shoah and, 25–26 autobiographical narrative, xii, 79, 35, 54, 7, 79n0; authorship in, 77n3; awakening in, ; biographical narrative in, 28, 29, 30, 40, 42, 45; as collective, 42, 2, 25, 38–39, 4, 47; cultural critique in, 84, 87, 08, 7, 22, 66; as imaginary space, 34, 74–75; as life writing, 27, 66, 84, 58; narrative form in, 6, 29, 30, 40, 69, 83, 86, 03, 20–2, 25, 54; poetry in, 25, 68–69; resistance and, 27; self-analysis in, 84, 58; self-recomposition, xv, xvi, 83, 02, 2–4, 63, 68; social change and, 25, 47; survival and, 27, 33; testimony and, 2, 34, 2, 38–39, 4, 77n5, 79n0 autobiography: autobiographical act, xvi; fiction and, xi; fictional, xii; memory and, xii awakening, , 7, 30, 32–35 biographical narrative: within autobiographical narrative, 28, 29, 30, 40, 42, 45 body, xiv; disembodiment, 3, 4, 0–, 20–2, 96; embodiment, 32–33, 36, 77n2; healing and, 70; illness and, xv, 4, 5, 0, 8n5; injury and, xv, 44; memory and, 5, 69; nation and, xv; repetition compulsion and, 53; shame and, xiv; social body, 6; torture and, xv, 3–33, 4; writing and, 36, 83n7 Castillo, Ana, 9, 9n2; Gloria Anzaldúa and, 9n2, 92n8 catharsis, xv, xvi, 28, 45, 68 childhood, xiv; trauma in, 5, 2 Colombia: La Violencia, 20; religious repression in, 9–20 confession, xviii, 66, 84–85, 98 death: death drive, xv; fear of, 6; healing and, 24; of mother, 7; as rebirth, 24; as suicide, 2 desaparecidos, 8, 32, 62, 80n3 desire, 53, 65, 66, 69, 45 Diaconú, Alina, 2–4 Dirty War, xii–xiii, –2, 25–26, 37, 77n5, 83n6, 84n0 displacement, 3, 9, 8, 55, 7, 73, 74 dreams, 30, 40; Freud on, 7; trauma and, 7; Wolf Man Case, 74, 8n9 encapuchamiento, 39 fahey.indd 209 8/10/07 10:14:01 AM 210 u Index ESMA (Escuela Mecánica de la Armada/ Navy School of Mechanics), 26, 3, 4 exile, xiii, 3, 47, 46, 82n5; desexilio, 48–49, 75 family, 5, 2, 7, 93n9 father: figure of, 5; images of, 5; as Other, 24; rage in, 2, 7 feminine: absence of, ; as ghost, 8; as maternal, 7 feminism, 03, 46, 54, 55, 65–66, 70, 76; as cultural critique, 80–8, 87, 7; postmodern feminism, 78n8, 79n0 Fingueret, Manuela, 27 gender, xi, 78–79, 80, 8, 84, 88, 93, 99, 0, 04, 08, 0–2, 52, 53, 69, 76; nationalism and, 87; religion and, 90; travel and, 86, 95, 60–6 genre, 92–93; confessional, xviii, 84; diary, 30, 97; epistolary, xiii, 79, 84–85, 90, 98, 99, 6, 5, 56, 92n5; Frederick Jameson on, 87, 92; inventory, 90–93, 94–95, 05–6; semanal, 98; travelogue, 6, 7, 90 ghost, 7–24, 44; as feminine, 8 globalization, 2, 24 grief, 2, 4 healing, xiv, 6, 2, 45, 74, 68, 74; death and, 24; empathy and, 7, 23; of father figure, 22–24; ghost and, 9; imagination and, 70–7; psychological recovery, xvi; sex work and, 4, 8; transference and, 2, 76 history: repetition of, 25, 37, 4, 43, 44 identity: death of, 37; Jewish identity, 36; loss of, 9; national identity, 36, 80, 89n7; political identity, 35–36; self-reinvention, xv, xvi, 83, 02, 2–4, 63, 68; transnational, 42, 45 Kristeva, Julia, 32, 57, 66, 7 language, 3, 24, 43, 35, 55, 76, 99, 0–2, 58–6, 8n8; Mikhail Bakhtin on, 4, 64, 58, 59, 8n8; deformation of, 25, 43; identity and, 99, 0–2; relationship and, 00; religion and, 3; of repression, 4, 58; of spirituality, 37; of wound, 55 literature, 53; allegory in, 87; of Argentina, 80n; the Boom, 9n3; Chicano, 49–50; erotic, 84n; experimental strategies in, xvii–xviii, 37; Hispanic canon, 55; interior life and, 3...