True Fictions from Spain & Latin America: Alicia Partnoy on "Testimony and Fiction"

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 

Online Event

12 PM New York l 5 PM Vienna

This semester, Patricia López-Gay, Professor of Spanish Studies at Bard College, is opening her OSUN Online Course on "True Fictions from Spain and Latin America" to the wider Spanish-speaking OSUN community.

Alicia Partnoy joins the class to speak "On Testimony and Fiction." A poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist, Partnoy is one of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared." In 1977, she was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Her writings were smuggled out of prison and published anonymously in human rights journals.

In this session, the class will discuss Partnoy's literary testimony of her disappearance and imprisonment, titled La Escuelita or "The Little School." Told in a series of tales that resound in memory like parables, La Esquelita is proof of the resilience of the human spirit and the healing powers of art.

This event will be conducted in Spanish. Join via Zoom by writing to Professor López-Gay.

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