Testimony, responsability and inheritance. Political militancy and affectivity in Argentina during the 70s

This article analyses the broad presence of testimonies related to the recent past in Argentina. Contrary to the interpretations that criticise  the use of personal narratives for the study of recent history (especially the  militant experience of the seventies), the text argues that the contribution  of the testimony is key to the interpretative elaboration of that experience.  In support of this interpretation several theoretical tools are used (Foucault,  Agamben, Ricœur). At the same time, the text concludes with an analysis  of a segment of a testimonial narrative about how militancy acted to  produce transformations in personal relationships as an integral part of the  revolutionary struggle but did so with a logic that ended up subordinating the  sphere of affectivity to the logic of armed militancy.