Marguerite Feitlowitz is an author and translator whose work has focused on "languages-within-languages" and the way disaster "affects our relationship to language."[1] She is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, as well as numerous essays and translations.[2]

A vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record, Feitlowitz has published a number of articles on the subject in Salon and The International Herald Tribune

She is a professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont.

Bibliography

Books

  • 2011 [1998]. A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-74469-5.

Translations

  • 1992. Information for Foreigners: Three Plays. Gambaro, Griselda. Northwestern University Press. 978-0810110335.
  • 1994. Bad Blood (La malasangre). Gambaro, Griselda. Dramatic Publishing. ISBN 978-0871294586.
  • 2014. Pillar of Salt: An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets. Novo, Salvador. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-70541-8

References

  1. ↑ "Marguerite Feitlowitz | About". margueritefeitlowitz.com. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  2. ↑ A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue (New to this ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2011-04-01. ISBN 9780199744695.


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