This article analyzes the ghostly presence of the figure of the disappeared in Argentina in the period spanning from the military dictatorship—when the crime of forced disappearance was perpetrated systematically and on a massive scale—to the present. By examining a variety of written and oral sources (memoirs, print media, interviews, radio shows, photographs, documentaries, and literary works of fiction and non-fiction), the article historicizes that presence and explains it through the crime’s liminal nature, and the different meanings that the spectral figure acquires depending on the actors who perceive it and the changing political contexts. The article reveals how the ghostly presence of the disappeared challenges the tools used internationally in the field of transnational justice to deal with experiences of extreme violence and the specific policies for processing the crime of forced disappearance and representing the disappeared in Argentina.

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在阿根廷消失的幽灵般的存在

本文分析了从军事独裁时期到系统地大规模实施强迫失踪罪的时期，阿根廷失踪者的身影。通过研究各种书面和口头资料（回忆录，印刷媒体，访谈，广播节目，照片，纪录片以及虚构和非虚构的文学作品），本文对这种存在进行了历史化描述，并通过犯罪的犯罪性质对其进行了解释，以及频谱人物获得的不同含义取决于感知它的演员和不断变化的政治环境。