In Derivas de la sangre, María Marta Quintana proposes to analyze the “subjectivation process of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (APM) association” (25).1 Quintana focuses on three particular monographs produced by the association (Botin de guerra [Nosigilia 1985], Identidad, despojo y restitución [Herrera and Tenembaum 1989], and La historia de Abuelas: 30 años de búsqueda [Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo 2007]) to systematize how Abuelas of Plaza de Mayo built its own (changeable) identity, forged several and combined public ethos, and developed a “strategic blood's essentialism” to dispute the last Argentine postdictatorship's legacy. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur's narration theory, Michel Foucault's concept of “strategic antagonism,” Homi Bhabha's insights on authoritarian discourse, and Judith Butler's notion of “alternative agency,” Quintana develops a philosophical analysis of the separate conceptual and political struggles Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo had to endure to make justice to the past....

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