Resumen: en la República Dominicana un impulso conmemorativo traspasa In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Álvarez, 1994) y la Casa Museo que ha convertido a las Hermanas Mirabal en sujetos históricos de dimensiones monumentales. Frente a conmemoraciones convencionales y la representación heroica de las hermanas, atiendo a discusiones recientes sobre posdictadura y lugares de memoria para proponer que la casa arruinada de Patria Mirabal y su Jardín Memorial constituyen un "sitio de trauma" (Violi) cuyo testimonio material de la violencia ofrece un rendimiento crítico que expande el discurso biográfico al enfocar problemáticas más amplias del trujillismo como el contacto entre estado y cuerpo político. Palabras clave: ruina, monumento, posdictadura, sitio de trauma, memoria Abstract: In the Dominican Republic the commemorative thrust of In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) and the Casa Museo has transformed the Mirabal Sisters into historical subjects of monumental proportions. Against conventional commemorations and the sisters' heroic and "hagiographic" representation, I attend to recent debates about postdictatorship and memory sites to argue that the ruins of Patria Mirabal's home and her Memorial Garden constitute a "trauma site" (Violi) whose material testimony of violence has critical affordances that illuminate broader issues related to Trujillismo, such as the contact between state and body politic.
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