Displaced memories
Subtitle: the poetics of trauma in Argentine women's writing
By: M. Edurne Portela.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; UNKNO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
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: title: Argentina (1976-2006): state terrorism, (post) exile, and the politics of oblivion; title: Theoretical foundations for the study of women's prison narratives; title: Re-enacting memory, reconstructing resistance: Alicia Partnoy's The little school and La Escuelita; title: Uncanny returns: representations of trauma in Alicia Kozameh's Pasos bajo el agua; title: From victim to agent:   death, devastation, and dissent in Nora Strejilevich's Una sola muerte numerosa; title: Conclusion: memory is a weapon loaded with future.