Viviana B. MacManus, "Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of\xa0Disruptive Archives:\xa0Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America\u2019s Dirty Wars\xa0published by the University of Illinois Press in 2020. It has just received Honorable Mention for the 2021 Gloria E. Anzald\xfaa Book Prize. The National Women's Studies Association awards the prize for groundbreaking scholarship in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship.\nViviana McManus is at the department of Spanish and French Studies, Occidental College in Los Angeles. Her current research focuses \u201con feminist uses of horror in contending with gender state and racialized violence in Latin American film and literature\u201d. In\xa0Disruptive Archives, Macmanus throws light on the many women activists who survived the years of repression in Argentina and Mexico and who have been relegated to the category of the unseen or are portrayed as underlings to the men who they fought alongside with. She also discusses how human rights texts and masculinist Left accounts of dictatorships have made women\u2019s struggles invisible as they have remained silent and consequently helped post dictatorship regimes who have a vested interest in brushing uncomfortable truths under the carpet.\n Minni Sawhney\xa0is a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies