Decir lo irrepresentable: Hacia un análisis feminista del testimonio de Nieves Ayress Moreno

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis, from the focus of feminist theory, of the testimony of political imprisonment of Nieves Ayress Moreno during the Chilean military dictatorship. Through this interpretation, we intend to establish new parameters for the understanding and configuration of women in history as an active political and social subject inserted in a context of imprisonment, violence and transgression. In this way, it is proposed that the testimony allows identifying the formation of a valid enunciation space of a political subject not recognized in its gender difference. Understood in this way, the testimony is constructed from the exchange of subjective experiences, where it is possible to question, not only the historical role of women, but also the capacity of representation of language within a type of text that seeks to tell the limit experience.