Two Forms of Multidirectional Memory: Um Passaporte Húngaro and El abrazo partido. (26th September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lie, Nadia
• Is Part Of: European review. Volume 22:Number 4(2014:Nov.)
• Page Start: 575
• Page End: 584
• Publication Date: 2014-09-26
• Subjects: Learned institutions and societies -- Europe -- Periodicals; 940
• DOI: 10.1017/S1062798714000362
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1062-7987

Abstract

Abstract : This article confronts two films about the request for a European passport by a Latin American citizen: Um Passaporte Húngaro ( A Hungarian Passport, 2001) and El abrazo partido ( Lost Embrace, 2003). Both films deal with memory of the Jewish-Latin American migration that took place within the context of the Holocaust, and both gear this problematic towards other, more contemporary, stories of displacement. It is argued that this multidirectional quality operates in two ways in relation to the concept of nationality: whereas one film puts it to work in order to critique and deconstruct the nation (centrifugal logic), the other uses it to opposite effect: to reaffirm and rebuild it (centripetal logic).