TY - CHAP
T1 - Disintegrating Bodies
T2 - The Undoing of the Discourse of War in Palleja’s Diario (1865–66)
AU - Uriarte, Javier
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The opening chapter presents a reading of a diary written by Colonel León de Palleja, member of the Uruguayan forces during the Paraguayan War (1864–1870). Colonel Palleja died in this war, in which Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay joined their forces against Paraguay. Far from the nationalistic, simplifying, and fanatic opinions so frequent among the approaches to the conflict in those days (and up to the present), the author argues that in Palleja’s Diario de la campaña de las fuerzas aliadas contra el Paraguay, war is narrated as loneliness, abandonment, suffering, and desperation. These chronicles bear witness to the decimation of the Uruguayan soldiers in their voyage to the Paraguayan front. The author discusses the ways in which Palleja’s text undermines the very discourse of war.
AB - The opening chapter presents a reading of a diary written by Colonel León de Palleja, member of the Uruguayan forces during the Paraguayan War (1864–1870). Colonel Palleja died in this war, in which Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay joined their forces against Paraguay. Far from the nationalistic, simplifying, and fanatic opinions so frequent among the approaches to the conflict in those days (and up to the present), the author argues that in Palleja’s Diario de la campaña de las fuerzas aliadas contra el Paraguay, war is narrated as loneliness, abandonment, suffering, and desperation. These chronicles bear witness to the decimation of the Uruguayan soldiers in their voyage to the Paraguayan front. The author discusses the ways in which Palleja’s text undermines the very discourse of war.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85145920245
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-53544-9_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-53544-9_2
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85145920245
T3 - Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
SP - 19
EP - 38
BT - Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -