Clandestine Loves. Couple, Family and Emotions in Evita Montonera Magazine

The article studies the love discourse in the Montoneros guerrilla in the mid-1970s. It is framed within the field of history of emotions, and uses Evita Montonera, the official press of the guerrilla group between 1974 and 1979. The text states that the magazine shaped the image of a militant perso...

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Main Author: Campos, Esteban Javier
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2025
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/44411
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Summary:The article studies the love discourse in the Montoneros guerrilla in the mid-1970s. It is framed within the field of history of emotions, and uses Evita Montonera, the official press of the guerrilla group between 1974 and 1979. The text states that the magazine shaped the image of a militant person capable of fusing romantic love and family love with political commitment, in order to integrate sentimental relationships into the party’s logic. This emotional culture materialized in several sections of the magazine, where letters from guerrilla men and women who lost their partners in combat were published, as well as notes and testimonies about exemplary Montonero families. For the research, the twenty-five issues of Evita Montonera were surveyed, but the article focuses on the 1975-1976 biennium, a time in which references to love are more recurrent. The work uses discourse analysis as its main methodology, but tries to raise some hypotheses about the experience of emotional mandates among militants