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Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars
February 24, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Dr. Viviana MacManus, the author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars (University of Illinois Press, 2020), will discuss the history of gender and state violence during the so-called “Dirty Wars” of Argentina and Mexico (1960-1980s) and the current struggles over the historical memory of this era. In dialogue with RCA Director Sylvanna Falcón of LALS, Dr. MacManus, Assistant Professor of Spanish and French Studies at Occidental College, will explore narratives of loss, haunting, and trauma to bring forth a Latin American feminist theory of justice. This event is free and open to the public. Closed captioning and an ASL interpreter will be provided.
Co-sponsored by the Research Center for the Americas.
Viviana MacManus
Assistant Professor of Spanish and French Studies, Occidental College
Viviana Beatriz MacManus’s research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, literature, film, and cultural studies.
Her first book, Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars, (University of Illinois Press, 2020), examines cultural narratives of resistance articulated by women activists who survived Mexican and Argentinean state terrorism (1960-80s). Prof. MacManus has published in The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Chiricú: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. Her current research projects center on the politics of violence and visuality in the Américas, the cultural legacy of insurgent motherhood in Latin America’s guerrilleras, and the feminist uses of horror in contending with gender, state, and racialized violence in Latin American film and literature.
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