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Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Latin American Literature
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Violent repression and murder by military juntas and governments in Latin American countries and how writers document and come to terms with such traumas in fiction, drama, and poetry. The importance of memory in the process of healing. Elena Poniatowska's 1971 Massacre in Mexico, a collection of interviews, newspaper quotes, and poems about the 1968 student movement; the Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, a performance group and political collective started in 1971, and its 2000 adaptation of Antigone to show that survival sometimes entails witnessing and not resisting injustices; and the Dirty War in Argentina's influence on Alicia Borinsky's All Night Movie, set in postdictatorship Argentina.
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Program 145
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Participants
Danny Anderson
Alicia Borinsky
Diana Taylor
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