Authors: Alicia Partnoy, Lois Athey (Translator), Saundra Braunstein
ISBN-13: 9781573440295, ISBN-10: 1573440299
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cleis Press
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: Second Edition
One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.
Military regimes are not at all unusual in Argentina, but those that ruled from 1976 to 1979 were unique in the number of civilians, mostly young people, who were kidnapped, jailed, tortured, and/or murdered because of their political beliefs. Late in 1977 the author was taken into custody by the army and sent to ``the little school,'' one of many camps where dissidents were ``taught'' their ``lessons.'' Imprisoned without charges, she spent almost a year blindfolded and bound, cut off from friends and family, including her child, until being inexplicably released. Partnoy's glimpses of her life in prison are understandably disjointed and meandering, but they stand as a record of character and fortitude. Louise Leonard, Univ . of Florida Lib., Gainesville
Preface | 8 | |
Introduction | 11 | |
The One-Flower Slippers | 25 | |
Latrine | 29 | |
Birthday | 35 | |
My Names | 41 | |
Benja's First Night | 45 | |
Telepathy | 49 | |
Graciela: Around the Table | 53 | |
My Nose | 59 | |
Religion | 61 | |
A Conversation Under the Rain | 67 | |
A Puzzle | 77 | |
Toothbrush | 81 | |
Bread | 83 | |
The Small Box of Matches | 87 | |
Ruth's Father | 93 | |
Form of Address | 97 | |
Poetry | 103 | |
The Denim Jacket | 109 | |
A Beauty Treatment | 113 | |
Nativity | 119 | |
App | Cases of Disappearance at the Little School | 123 |
App | Descriptions of the Guards at the Little School | 133 |