Once@9:53am - Terror in Buenos Aires

At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published in Spanish amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror in Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela.
Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina's deadliest bombing depicts a vibrant, complex urban community in the hours before its identity was forever changed. This expanded English edition includes a new essay by Ilan Stavans detailing the aftermath of the attack and the faulty investigations that have yet to yield any arrests or reach resolution.
A unique and powerful visual experience, Once@9:53am is both a commemoration of an atrocity that shifted Latin American Jewish identity in innumerable ways and an ingenious use of a popular format to explore the dangerous intersection of politics and religion in Latin America.

About the author

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the publisher of Restless Books. His books include On Borrowed Words (2001) and Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015). He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.Marcelo Brodsky trained at the International Center of Photography, Barcelona. He is a member of the Buena Memoria human rights organization and the Pro-Monument to the Victims of Terrorism Commission.

Summary

Originally published in Spanish. A graphic novel, part documentary, part fiction, using the fotonovela form to imagine the two hours before the terrorist attack against the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Explores the faulty police investigation of the atrocity, and minorities’ vulnerability in democratic societies.

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Stavans, Ilan (Amherst College) Stavans
• Assisted by: Marcelo Brodsky (Photographs), Brodsky Marcelo (Photographs), Ilan Stavans (Afterword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2016
• EAN: 9780271077185
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07718-5
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 260 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Dimyonot; Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultura; Dimyonot
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / Judaism / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, Terrorism, armed struggle, Judaism, History of the Americas, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction