argentina

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argentina

The reason for wings

a novel
1999
Unwilling to believe that her daughter and granddaughter have been killed in the military torture camps, Rachael begins to record her family's struggle to survive the Holocaust in the hopes that her granddaughter will someday return and find strength in the stories.

Revolutionizing motherhood

the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
1994
During the Argentine junta's war against subversives, a group of women forged the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and transformed Argentine politics forever. The author traces the history of the association from an informal group of housewives searching for their children to an internationally known organization demanding civil rights.

Postmemories of terror

a new generation copes with the legacy of the "Dirty War"
2005
A collection of oral histories from sixty-three young people who were too young to remember the events of the military dictatorship in Argentina between 1976 and 1983, and explores the effects of the war on their lives.

Political (in)justice

authoritarianism and the rule of law in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina
2005
Compares political repression in three military regimes--Brazil, Chile, and Argentina--focusing on political trials and each regime's approach to the law.

Mothers of the disappeared

1989
Examines the experiences of women who took to the streets in Argentina to protest military rule and the disappearance of thousands of people who dared go against the government from 1976 to 1983.

Disappearing acts

spectacles of gender and nationalism in Argentina's "dirty war"
1997
Analyzes the political spectacles that comprised Argentina's armed forces' "Dirty War" against its people between 1976 and 1983, and examines the theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performances that were undertaken to resist and subvert the military.

Argentina

Marianela Forconesi's painting "My father's farm"
1997
The young Argentine artist, Marianela Forconesi, discusses the culture and landscape of Argentina and describes a painting she made while spending time on a farm.

Alet?n y el d?a que el cielo se vino abajo

mito mocob?
2002
When the falling Sky causes the Sun to crash to the Earth, Alet?n saves the situation and finds that his people and their world have been changed forever.

An absence of shadows

poems
1998
A collection of poems by Marjorie Agosin that give voice to the victims of the corrupt dictatorships that existed in Latin America during the late twentieth century.

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