A Collective Testimony by Argentine Genocide Survivors: The Prison Walls Cry and We Laugh

Concealing God: How Argentine Women Political Prisoners Constructed a Collective Identity

Cuando Vienen Matando: On Prepositional Shifts and the Struggle of Testimonial Subjects for Agency

Textual Strategies to Resist Disappearance and the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

“Continuidad de las islas.” “Arte política”

Rosa, I Disowned You

La narrativa de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo: Estrategias textuales de resistencia a la desaparición

Poetry as a Strategy for Resistance in the Holocaust and the Southern Cone Genocides

On Being Shorter: Our Testimonial Texts and the U.S. Academia

Ser chaparrita: Los textos testimoniales como desafío al mundo académico y las lecciones de Elena Poniatowska

Disclaimer Intraducible: My life/ is based/ on a Real Story

Told in a series of tales that resound in memory like parables, Alicia Partnoy's memoir of disappearance in Argentina is proof of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers of art.

The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival

Revenge of the Apple/Venganza De LA Manzana

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated into Spanish by Alicia Partnoy. Characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream float into and out of contemporary landscapes contemplating love, art, language, and otherness in mischievous and serious ways. Here "quick bright things" "come to confusion" but often to tenderness and understanding. Alicia Partnoy's inspired translations uncover surprising surreal beauty and cross-cultural insight.

So Quick Bright Things

The terse sensuality of these poems - their gentleness and unflinching courage in the face of devestation, of genocide - is so much more than instructive.  It is poetry with the subtlety and insight of our greatest resources, intelligence and compassion.                              -Gail Wronsky

Volando Bajito / Little Low Flying: Poems  (English and Spanish Edition)

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Gail Wronsky. Alicia Partnoy's FLOWERING FIRES/FUEGOS FLORALES is a work of wisdom born of witness and tempered by a lifetime of commitment to her craft. Gail Wronsky's translations render these poems as vital in English as they are in Spanish. This is a book to be cherished, read and reread. The book was honored as the recipient of the first annual Settlement House American Poetry Prize, which acknowledges the importance of the immigrant legacy and its potential as a force for social justice, tolerance and goodwill in the United States. Initiated in 2014, the Prize includes publication by Settlement House of a collection of poems by a first-generation American.

Flowering Fires/Fuegos Florales

Río De Sangre tells the story, in Spanish, of the overthrow of a  dictatorship in a fictional South American country. In the aftermath of a  coup d’état, the new leader of a Latin American republic embarks on an  idealistic course for his nascent government. Faced with numerous  problems and no one to trust, our protagonist Delacruz realizes that the  good of the country and the protection of his own family may be more  than he can achieve.A series of catastrophic events  follow—earthquakes, kidnapping and assassination, combine to allow the  rise of an adversarial wolf in sheep’s clothing. The outbreak of a riot  affords the opportunity for this adversary to assume control of the  government, thus perpetuating the tragic cycle of oppression.The  passion and color of the South American heritage, and the triumphs and  struggles of its people throughout its history of oppression and tragedy  suggests music of monumental drama. 

Rio de Sangre

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS

THE VOICE OF EXILE RICOCHETS off endless walls, never losing its resonance or shattering the walls. And the surfaces which reproduce its powerful sound are the rock of natural canyons, the streets of strange cities, human skin, the heart's muscle. Exile: a painful phenomenon of our times.Women in exile: certainly the epiceNter, those who so often receive the greatest weight while sustaining others and themselves in a maddening spiral ofimposed change. I cannot think of anyone who could have done a better job of gathering up these voices; for Alicia Partnoy is, herself, very much a part of this history. Listen to these women: in essay, narrative, poetry, testimony, song. Learn, through their words, what it means to leave your homeland and take it with you at one and the same time. 

You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile

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Alicia Partnoy is an author, human rights activist, and a survivor. Her book The Little School. Tales of Disappearance and Survival, was used as evidence in the trials against the genocide perpetrators in Argentina.She is the author of the poetry collections Flowering Fires/Fuegos florales (recipient of the First Settlement House American Poetry Prize) and Little Low Flying/Volando bajito, translated by Gail Wronsky. Partnoy edited You Can't Drown the Fire: Latin American Women Writing in Exile, and co-edited Chicana/Latina Studies: the journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Poems from her Revenge of the Apple/Venganza de la manzana were posted on the metro in New York, Dallas, and Washington D.C., and sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock. She translated Gail Wronsky’s poetry collection So Quick Bright Things/Tan pronto las cosas, and Kate Gale’s opera libretto Río de Sangre. Partnoy’s  work has been twice a Pushcart Foundation Writer's Choice Selection (Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason), and a London Times best-seller. 

A former Vice-Chair of Amnesty International, and member of the Board of Directors of PEN-West, Alicia Partnoy is a founding member of Proyecto VOS-Voices of Survivors, an organization that brings survivors of state sponsored violence to lecture at U.S. universities.

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