Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994

Agosin, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 0826316913 / ISBN 13: 9780826316912

Verlag: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1996

Beschreibung

Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 1st Printing. Inscribed by Agosin. 142pp Square 8vo. Chile.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 158160

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994
• Verlag: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0826316913
• ISBN-13: 9780826316912
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
• Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Latin America

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Inhaltsangabe

This book tells the story of ordinary women living in terror and extreme poverty under General Pinochet's oppressive rule in Chile (1973--1989) and how their lives did and did not change following his reign. These women defied the military dictatorship by embroidering their sorrow on scraps of cloth, using needles and thread as one of the boldest means of popular protest and resistance in Latin America. The arpilleras they made -- patchwork tapestries with scenes of everyday life and memorials to their disappeared relatives -- were smuggled out of Chile and brought to the world the story of their fruitless searches in jails, morgues, government offices, and the tribunals of law for their husbands, brothers, and sons. Marjorie Agosin, herself a native of and exile from Chile, has spent over twenty years interviewing the arpilleristas and following their work. She knows their stories intimately and knows, too, that not one of them has ever found a disappeared relative alive. Still, many of them maintain hope and continue to make their arpilleras. Includes a history of the women's movement, testimonies from the women in their own words, and, for the first time, full-color plates of their beautiful, moving, and ultimately hopeful arpilleras. Anyone interested in the history of contemporary Latin America will want to read this powerful story.<

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marjorie Agosin is professor of Spanish and the history of women in Latin American culture at Wellesley College.