Revistas contraculturales argentinas en dictadura y transición: debates alrededor del exilio / Argentine Counterculture Magazines during Dictatorship and Transition: Debates about Exile

Abstract

During the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), a group of cultural magazines challenged the restrictions imposed by hegemonic military power through their proposal of politic and cultural intervention, their place in the symbolic market and the recovery of traditions that contended against the so-called official culture, among other things. Consequently, they came to be designated as countercultural or underground magazines. Since 1978 and during the so-called Argentine transition, those magazines engaged in a dispute with those manifestations that, from the exile, equated their cultural production of those people who remained with the inaction, the stillness, and the silent. Between the exile and those who remained in the country, a solidarity network was established based on the suffering and denunciation of the military regime's censorship, prohibition, and persecution. But also a series of tensions between “inside” and “outside”, which we intend to revisit in this article, was established.