Rethinking Conceptualizations of Identity of the Detained-Disappeared

Authors

  • Catherine Brix University of Notre Dame

Keywords:

Uruguay, Argentina, disappeared, dictatorships

Abstract

Review of Gabriel Gatti's Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay: Identity and Meaning (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Author Biography

Catherine Brix, University of Notre Dame

Catherine Brix is a doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Literature Program at the University of Notre Dame. She is originally from Ankeny, Iowa and completed a MA in Spanish at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and a BA degrees in Spanish and Art at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Her research interests include modern and contemporary literature from Spain and the Southern Cone, gender studies, testimonial literature, (re)presentations of dictatorships in films and novels, trauma studies, studies of human rights discourses, body studies, and art history. She currently teaches Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame and has also taught courses in Spanish in the past at each of the universities she has attended.

Published

2015-01-15

How to Cite

Brix, C. (2015). Rethinking Conceptualizations of Identity of the Detained-Disappeared. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 12(2), 468–474. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1387

Issue

Section

Reviews: Nation-State and Violence