Elvira Sanchez-Blake's shattering testimonial novel, Spiral of Silence, breaks thirty-year silences about the traumatizing impact of Colombia's civil war, and centers on the experiences of women who move through hoplessness, loss, and grief during this volatile era in Latin American history.
A multigenerational epic, Spiral of Silence (Espiral de Silencios) opens in the early 1980s, as peace and amnesty agreements spark optimism and hope. We meet Norma, a privileged, upper-class woman who is married to an army general; Maria Teresa (Mariate), a young rebel who loves a guerrilla fighter and navigates commitments to motherhood and revolutionary activism; and Amparo, a woman who comes of age later, and carries the confusion and dislocation of a younger generation. Each contends with the consequences of war and violence on her life; each is empowered through community-building and working for change.
Few authors have considered the role of women in Colombia during this wartime period, and Sanchez-Blake's nuanced exploration of gender and sexism-framed by conflict and social upheaval-distinguishes the novel. Drawing on stories from women who have worked within organizations in Colombia to end state violence, Spiral of Silence celebrates resistance, reinvention, and how women create and protect their families and communities.
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Höhe: 226 mm
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Dicke: 13 mm
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978-0-8101-3916-9 (9780810139169)
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Elvira Sanchez-Blake is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of several books of short stories, poetry, and plays. Among her titles is Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics, and the Mind, coauthored with Laura Kanost. Her scholarly interests include Latin American women writers, testimonial literature, gender issues, media, and theater.
Lorena Terando is an associate professor of translation and interpreting studies, and chair of the Translation and Interpreting Studies Department at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is a leading critical translation scholar, focusing on witnessing in translation, trauma studies, and the work of Latin American women novelists. She has translated work by Consuelo Avila, Belen Boville, Esther Cross, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo, and Carmen Cecilia Suarez, among others.
