Alicia Partnoy

Alicia Partnoy (* 1955 in Bahía Blanca ) is an Argentine human rights activist and writer .

Partnoy was enrolled at the Universidad Nacional del Sur when the junta came to power in 1976 , led by General Jorge Rafael Videla . On January 12, 1977, she and her two-year-old daughter were arrested and thrown in the secret prison La Escuelita near Bahía Blanca. During the so-called process of national reorganization , she was repeatedly tortured there over a long period of time. She was later transferred from this torture prison to the Bahía Blanca prison.

In mid-1979, Partnoy was released from prison only on condition that he had to leave the country immediately . She went to the USA where her daughter and husband were already waiting for her. In 1985 she made her very successful debut with her first work La escuelita (The little school). In it, she described her experiences during her detention and the suffering of those in prison, who were less fortunate and disappeared .

Partnoy lives with her family in Los Angeles , California and teaches at Loyola Marymount University .

Works (selection)

as an author

• The discourse of solidarity in testimonial “poemarios” from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay . Dissertation, University of Washington, DC 1997.
• The little school. Tales of disappearance and survival in Argentina . Virago Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-86068-929-8 .

as editor

• You can't drown the fire. Latin American women writing in exile . Cleis Press, San Francisco, Calif. 1988, ISBN 0-939416-16-6 .

literature

• Marta Bermúdez-Gallegos: "The little school" por Alicia Partnoy. El testimonio en la Argentina . In: Revista iberoamericana. Vol. 56, No. 151, 1990, ISSN  0034-9631 , pp. 463-476, online (PDF; 806 kB) .
• Gwendolyn Díaz: Women and Power in Argentine Literature. Stories, Interviews and Critical Essays. University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2007, ISBN 978-0-292-71649-0 ( Texas Pan-American Literature in Translation Series ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maren Mylius; Andreas Frewer: Medicine and human rights violations in the 'literatura testimonial' of Argentina: The doctor as the perpetrator with Jacobo Timerman and Alicia Partnoy . In: Florian Steger (Hrsg.): Yearbook literature and medicine . tape 2 , 2008, p. 99-116 .