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Cecilia Sosa's volume offers an incisive, heart-wrenching yet joyful exploration through the aftermath of the convulse years of the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), which brought horror and death to Argentine society . . . and of how Argentine society has managed to deal and engage with loss. . . . An engaging and fresh read, the volume's main contribution to the field of memory and identity studies is that it succeeds in providing an innovative theoretical perspective to approach it. 452F * . *
This ambitious study provides a timely and valuable contribution to recent scholarly and societal debates on memory and identity politics that extends outside of the Southern Cone. * BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES *
[T]he affective and intellectual pleasure of reading her analyses of the practices featured between the pages of this book clearly demonstrate the ability of people not only to live through trauma, but to live with others in exciting and unexpected ways. * WOMEN & PERFORMANCE *
Not only is Sosa's Queering Acts of Mourning riveting and immensely readable, it also constitutes a breakthrough in changing the direction of studies of memory, trauma, mourning, and kinship in post-dictatorial Argentina. * LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW *
[T]his ambitious study is a valuable contribution to scholarly and societal debates in contemporary Argentina and undoubtedly instructive for other countries grappling with the aftermath state of violence. * JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *
Book Information
ISBN 9781855662797
Author Cecilia Sosa
Format Hardback
Page Count 206
Imprint Tamesis Books
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g