Cry for me, Argentina
Subtitle: the performance of trauma in the short narratives of Aída Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro, and Tununa Mercado
By: Annette H. Levine.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780838641569
Subjects: Bortnik, Aída -- Criticism and interpretation; Gambaro, Griselda -- Criticism and interpretation; Mercado, Tununa, -- 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation; Argentine literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Argentina -- History -- Dirty War, 1976-1983 -- Literature and the war
Description: "Cry for Me, Argentina is an interdisciplinary study that draws on Latin American, literary, trauma, performance, and cultural studies to analyze the narrative of three Argentine women writers/activists - Aida Bortnik, Griselda Gambaro, and Tununa Mercado - whose work reveals the traumatic repercussions of the Dirty War (1976-83) and cultivates a narrative space for working through the impact of the era: the terrible losses of human life (30,000 disappeared individuals), the breakdown of civil liberties, and the ongoing struggles these problems have perpetuated." "Dr. Levine argues that the work of all three authors emphasizes the imperative to restore the dialogical principal obliterated by repressive authoritarian regimes. By doing so within their narrative, they cultivate a performative space in which they incite the reader to participate in the process of mourning, working toward social justice and healing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Boundless spaces of grief : Argentina in the aftermath of the Dirty War; title: Aída Bortnik's "Tales from the crypt" : the disappeared stories; title: "Empathic unsettlement" in Griselda Gambaro's Lo mejor que se tiene; title: Tununa Mercado's paper cemeteries; title: Staging the crypt : the performance of healing.