Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American Political
This article deals with conspiracy narratives regarding two deceased Latin American leaders from Venezuela and Argentina, Hugo Chávez and Néstor Kirchner. These narratives, circulating on the Internet, are supported by allusions to ritualized communications with the dead, such as the supernatural ap...
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| description | This article deals with conspiracy narratives regarding two deceased Latin American leaders from Venezuela and Argentina, Hugo Chávez and Néstor Kirchner. These narratives, circulating on the Internet, are supported by allusions to ritualized communications with the dead, such as the supernatural apparition of Chávez as a speaking bird and of Kirchner as a “cosmic kite.” Such symbols are used as argumentative strategies to legitimate political programs, in narratives whose rhetorical construction is based on a synecdochic logic connected with the global threats to local cultures. These discourses show a folklorization process of these political figures, presented as emblematic metaphors of local identities rooted in the traditional past. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8a2f19c3817d4106b6dbcfede6a632b42023-12-05T17:19:59ZengDepartment of English, Bodoland UniversityTranscript: An e-Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies2582-98582023-06-01312448https://doi.org/10.53034/Transcript.2023.v03.n01.002Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American PoliticalMaria Palleiro0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6899-4238Buenos Aires University, ArgentinaThis article deals with conspiracy narratives regarding two deceased Latin American leaders from Venezuela and Argentina, Hugo Chávez and Néstor Kirchner. These narratives, circulating on the Internet, are supported by allusions to ritualized communications with the dead, such as the supernatural apparition of Chávez as a speaking bird and of Kirchner as a “cosmic kite.” Such symbols are used as argumentative strategies to legitimate political programs, in narratives whose rhetorical construction is based on a synecdochic logic connected with the global threats to local cultures. These discourses show a folklorization process of these political figures, presented as emblematic metaphors of local identities rooted in the traditional past.https://thetranscript.in/speaking-birds-and-cosmic-kites-belief-narratives-and-conspiracy-theories-regarding-latin-american-political/belief narrativesconspiracy theoriesapocalyptic rhetoricpolitical folklorelatin american |
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| title | Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American Political |
| title_full | Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American Political |
| title_fullStr | Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American Political |
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| title_short | Speaking Birds and Cosmic Kites: Belief Narratives and Conspiracy Theories Regarding Latin American Political |
| title_sort | speaking birds and cosmic kites belief narratives and conspiracy theories regarding latin american political |
| topic | belief narratives conspiracy theories apocalyptic rhetoric political folklore latin american |
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