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"From a complicit intimacy that invites the adult audience to interfere in the (auto)biographical spaces of intimate and public everyday life, Cuentan las pibas investigates the poetics of telling the memory through the gaze and the feminist child-youth voice. Disputing consensual narratives and denouncing their patriarchal and adult-centred codes, this book explores cultural productions carried out by the generation of girls who grew up in the years of the coup and articulated their texts in the Argentine post-dictatorship. Stirring the waters and promoting aesthetic and political debate, like an auditory kaleidoscope that refuses to project a chorus of harmonious voices, the narratives of the girls of the post-dictatorship tell incessant exercises that propagate choral cries of Memory, Truth and Justice"--
About the author
Carolina Añón Suárez es Profesora Asistente de lengua y literatura latinoamericana en el Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Modernas de la Universidad de Fairfield. Obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura y Culturas Hispánicas por la Universidad de Minnesota y su profesorado en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Es co-editora de
Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina (2023). Su investigación aborda las narrativas de memoria de la generación posdictadura en Argentina desde una lente feminista.
