Unit 2: Extra Resources

Explore these additional resources to learn more about freedom of speech in Argentina, including censorship, exile, freedom of the press and literature, and human rights. 

Readings

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  • Alicia Partnoy Reads La Escuelita

Informational videos

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  • Marjorie Agosín - The Exile Writer and the Literary Imagination in the Americas

  • Marjorie Agosín - The Exile Writer and the Literary Imagination in the Americas; Dr.Agosín discusses the experience of being exiled. 
  • The Eternauta's Wife on Kanopy (must be a member of a participating public library to view). 

    • Music

    Lyrics for "Si Se Calla el Cantor"

    Lyrics in Spanish

    Lyrics in English

    • Seru Giran - Cancion de Alicia en el pais (Obras 1981)

    Song Titles

    • Seru Giran- Cancion De Alicia en El Pais (Obras 1981)
    • Bruce Springsteen- Solo Le Pido a Dios 
    • Pharrell Williams- Happy (Buenos Aires) 
    • Leon Gieco & U2 La Plata 2011-04-03 - Solo Le Pido A Dios

    Voice Of Freedom: Alicia Partnoy

    Photograph of Alicia Partnoy.

    Alicia Partnoy, a poet who survived Argentina’s “dirty war” of the 1970s, was one of thousands of “disappeared” sent to detention camps by the military dictatorship. During three years of imprisonment, she was tortured and many of her friends were killed. Expelled from Argentina in 1979, she came to the U.S. as a political refugee.

    Listen to her stories below:

    “41 years ago, the military coup took place. When I posted this picture, the fourth trial against thegenocide perpetrators in my hometown Bahía Blanca was starting. This image, from the documentary ‘La escuelita’ by Rodrigo Caprotti, shows me walking into the area where The Little School was built, superimposed with the layout of the place that I made as evidence that I had been held in the place the military leveled to destroy precisely that evidence."

    - Alicia Partnoy