Feelings and material culture during the bombings over Mar del Plata city in september 1955. An approach from emotions and oral history

Abstract

In this work, we will start from the category of “emotional impressions” to review the emotional link between material culture and the subjects around the episode of the bombing of the port of Mar del Plata in September 1955. The bibliography that recovers those days, mostly political and social history, is in continuous development. On this occasion we will seek to investigate a specific aspect of the emotional dimension of this process. For this purpose, it will be considered that the affective contact between subjects and objects leaves marks, as if these stamped sensibilities were “sticky.” Thus, the interviews conducted with Elvira, Daniel P., Daniel M., Susana, Pepe Vicente, Alda and Josefina and Ángel appear tinged with emotions such as fear, panic, anxiety and nostalgia and bring to the present images of that and other bombings, of the Navy plane and of Radio Colonia, of desired and lost Perón paintings, of the family home and the exodus, of the mud and the rain. It is precisely at the border between everyday things and people that the affective experience takes place and acquires relevance for the interests of this analysis.