Crisis in Buenos Aires : women bearing witness /
Argentina experienced a devastating economic and political collapse in December 2001. In this book women take up the pen and the camera to capture the new reality. Silvina Frydlewsky's photos juxtapose the plight of Buenos Aires with its faded glory, and poets from all walks of life express the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newark, Del. :
Juan De La Cuesta Hispanic Monographs,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Essays. Introduction: the crisis, illustrated / Anthony Faiola ; Argentina may be down but I don't plan to get out / Santiago O'Donnell ; Sociohistorical, gender, and genre contexts / David William Foster ; Writing the city from the crisis: poetic discards, Buenos Aires, 2001 / Gladys Ilarregui ; Translating the experience of the crisis into poetry / Delfina Muschietti ; La pequeña voz del mundo = The little voice of the world / Diana Bellessi
- Poetry. Amanece = Day breaks / Barbara Gill ; Anclada en el Riachuelo = Anchored in the Riachuelo / Betty Tosso ; Buenos Aires, Temperley = Buenos Aires, Temperley / Marta Cwielong ; Es hora. Nadie dice palabra = It is time. No one says anything / Olga Drennen ; Cuando era niña = When I was a girl / Marjorie Ross ; Los cacerolazos = The cacerolazos / Analía Bernardo ; El oficio de la pérdida = The task of losing / Valeria Flores ; Salmo por la ciudad de Buenos Aires = Psalm for the city of Buenos Aires / Ivonne Bordelois ; X / Zulema Moret ; Últimas fotos del naufragio = Last pictures of the shipwreck / Zulema Moret ; Muerte por hambre = Death by hunger / Diana Bellessi; Regina/reina = Regina/queen / Gladys Ilarregui ; Buenos Aires: historia del anochecer = Buenos Aires: story of nightfall / Gladys Ilarregui ; Los colectores = The collectors / Cecilia Rossi ; Ciudad de oro = City of gold / Cecilia Rossi ; Buenos Aires, 2002 = Buenos Aires, 2002 / Silvia Tandeciarz ; Me despierto en la noche = I wake up at night / Delfina Muschietti ; Pasea su futura amnesia = She walks her future infantile / Delfina Muschietti
- Appendix. Using "Crisis in Buenos Aires: Women Bearing Witness in the Classroom": sample lessons and themes / Stacey Hendrix.