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Co-winner of the Inaugural AHGBI Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation. The aftermath of Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983) has traditionally been associated with narratives of suffering, which recall the loss ofthe 30,000 civilians infamously known as the "disappeared". When democracy was recovered, the unspoken rule was that only those related by blood to the missing were entitled to ask for justice. This book both queries and queers this bloodline normativity. Drawing on queer theory and performance studies, it develops an alternative framework for understanding the affective transmission of trauma beyond traditional family settings. To do so, it introduces anarchive of non-normative acts of mourning that runs across different generations. Through the analysis of a broad spectrum of performances - including interviews, memoirs, cooking sessions, films, jokes, theatrical productions andliterature - the book shows how the experience of loss has not only produced a well-known imaginary of suffering but also new forms of collective pleasure. Cecilia Sosa received a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at School of Arts & Digital Industries, University of East London.

Disappeared persons --- Political persecution --- Disappeared persons' families --- Collective memory --- Queer theory. --- Popular culture --- Grief --- Mourning --- Sorrow --- Bereavement --- Emotions --- Loss (Psychology) --- Gender identity --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Families --- Political repression --- Repression, Political --- Persecution --- Civil rights --- Missing persons --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Family relationships --- Argentina --- Argenṭinah --- Argenṭine --- Argentine Confederation (1851-1861) --- Argentine Nation --- Argentine Republic --- Aruzenchin --- Confederación Argentina (1851-1861) --- Nación Argentina --- República Argentina --- アルゼンチン --- Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata --- Social life and customs --- "disappeared". --- Argentina's last dictatorship. --- affective transmission of trauma. --- bloodline normativity. --- collective pleasure. --- democracy. --- narratives of suffering. --- non-normative acts of mourning. --- performance studies. --- post-dictatorship Argentina. --- queer theory.