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ISBN-10: 0896727319
ISBN-13: 9780896727311
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Publish Date: 05/15/2012
Dimensions: 9.06" L, 5.59" W, 0.42" H

Daughter of Silence

Translator: Darrell Lockhart

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Price: $19.95

Overview

Silence is a tradition among the women of Rita’s family, so it is no wonder that she must interpret for herself what her mother has left unsaid about the horrors of the Terezin concentration camp. But Rita faces a silence of her own: a Peronist militant in 1980s Argentina, she has been incarcerated and abused in Buenos Aires’s infamous Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA) detention center. In an imagined dialogue between mother and daughter, Rita recreates Tinkeleh’s unarticulated story, interweaving it with memories of her own childhood. Breaking with the tradition of women as silent observers, Rita speaks not only for the nameless victims who have disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship but those of the Holocaust. Fingueret’s trenchant novel of survival transforms silence into a cry for justice that cannot be stifled.

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In a story that blurs the lines between the Shoah and one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships, Fingueret probes the limits of representation. Exploring the themes of exile, violence, and national identity, she exposes an uncanny horrific resemblance. The experience of the Holocaust is repeated some thirty years later–not in Germany or in Poland, but in Buenos Aires. –Alejandro Meter, University of San Diego
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Details

ISBN-10: 0896727319
ISBN-13: 9780896727311
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Publish Date: 05/15/2012
Dimensions: 9.06" L, 5.59" W, 0.42" H
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