Displaced memories
Subtitle: the poetics of trauma in Argentine women's writing
By: M. Edurne Portela.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757321
Subjects: Partnoy, Alicia, -- 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Kozameh, Alicia, -- 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Strejilevich, Nora -- Criticism and interpretation.; Argentine literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Political persecution in literature.; Psychic trauma in literature.; Memory in literature.; Argentina -- History -- Dirty War, 1976-1983 -- Literature and the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Argentina (1976-2006): state terrorism, (post) exile, and the politics of oblivion; value: Theoretical foundations for the study of women's prison narratives; value: Re-enacting memory, reconstructing resistance: Alicia Partnoy's The little school and La Escuelita; value: Uncanny returns: representations of trauma in Alicia Kozameh's Pasos bajo el agua; value: From victim to agent:   death, devastation, and dissent in Nora Strejilevich's Una sola muerte numerosa; value: Conclusion: memory is a weapon loaded with future.