The Little School
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Text: English, Spanish (translation)
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Alicia Partnoy was one of the estimated thirty thousand people captured during Argentinaâs dictatorship. An Argentine poet, author, human rights activist, translator, and professor, she was torn from her homeâand away from her baby daughter, who was left behind with relativesâin 1977.
This is a literary account of the subsequent months she spent in a clandestine prison in Bahia Blanca called La Escuelita, where she and other prisoners were subject to torture and abuse at the hands of the junta. Translated from Spanish, this is a survivorâs memoir. I loved the poetic and near-spiritual explorations of these harrowing experiences.âŠ
From Rebecca's list on Argentinaâs grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
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