Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison, (1975-1980) - Softcover

Drago, Margarita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972561153 ISBN 13: 9780972561150

Verlag: Editorial Campana, 2007

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Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) by Margarita Drago recounts the memories of an Argentine political prisoner from 1975 to 1980. A teacher, under house arrest and accused of political crimes, is transferred to the Women´s Prison of Rosario. Terrorized, she will become witness and victim of multiple interrogations, tortures and rapes. But there in the basement, where she lives along with other companions, she will begin a press using cigarette packages, and neither strength nor hope will abandon her. Intimate parts of the body will become secure, secret hiding places to keep study materials and prison information. Day after day she will feel the terror and cold of machine guns. She will hear the noise of the soldiers' boots and the bark of police dogs a few centimeters away.Family visits, increasingly more scarce, are reduced to almost a memory by the time she was transferred to the Villa Devoto Prison. For five years she sees, behind bars and doors, her companions being transferred to hidden jails. She knows of the manipulations of the priest who, cloaked in the sacrament of confession, betrayed many women who ended up assassinated. She lives through the tensions of cohabitation and political differences impossible to resolve.“Homage,” “The Mind Plays Tricks,” “Good-bye,” “The Women´s Prison of Rosario,” and some wrenching first pages signed by the author complete this book of hair-raising tensions and encounters. Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) is a piece of autobiographical writing that goes further than an act of restoring the past. Here, the protagonist proclaims identity as a gesture that repeats itself: the subject generates an answer and responsibility toward others.

Biografía del autor

Margarita Drago is originally from Argentina, and has been living in the United States since 1980. As an ex-political prisoner she has represented Argentina in congresses in the United States, Mexico, Peru, and France. She has published articles in newspapers and literary, educational, and human rights magazines. Ms. Drago has taught at the preschool, elementary, secondary and adult levels, and is currently a professor of Spanish Language and Literature and of Bilingual Education at York College, City University of New York, where she has worked since 1995. She is currently vice president of the Latino Artists Round Table, a nonprofit cultural organization that was founded in 1999. Ms. Drago has been an active participant in organizing congresses, conferences, and LART literary evenings, and has represented LART by holding lectures, presentations, and conferences at universities and cultural centers. Excerpts from Memory Tracks: Fragments from Prison (1975-1980) have appeared in anthologies and literary magazines.

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• Verlag: Editorial Campana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0972561153
• ISBN 13: 9780972561150
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184