An exceptionally ‘normal’ life: “yours is, or seems to you, normal, the different are the others”. Contributions to think about the history of David Patricio Romero

Abstract

Developed diverse reflections about the dialogues between memory, history, testimony, narratives and militancy, based on a large interview with David Patricio Romero, a relevant figure political with wide experience in the province of Chubut. It is observed, from a particularly notable case, how the subjects construct their stories, placing their personal lives in a specific place in history and formulating relationships with other central figures of the regional and national process. In every testimony, an intersection is configured between the particular history and the collective process, based on a series of tools (narrative images, the construction of a lineage framework, the recurrence to the formulation of mythical figures, etc.) that here are reviewed conceptually and historically. At the same time, an interesting balance is recovered about the historical process experienced in the northeast of Chubut during the decades of the '60s and '70s, years crossed by the escape from the Rawson prison, the Trelew Massacre and the Trelewazo of October 1972.