Daughter of Silence

Name: Daughter of Silence
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ISBN: 9780896727311

ISBN-10: 0896727319

ISBN-13: 9780896727311

Edition: 2012

Authors: Manuela Fingueret, Darrell Lockhart

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English