Presentation will be in Spanish!
Nidia Díaz fue una comandante guerrillera durante la guerra civil en El Salvador que fue capturada, encarcelada y torturada por representantes del régimen de Ángel Duarte en 1985. Nidia escribió su testimonio "Nunca estuve sola", donde narra el dolor corporal sufrido durante ese tiempo. En la charla se hablará acerca de las resignificaciones corporales que se perciben en su texto a través de las caricaturas que dibujó en la cárcel y su relación con la "mujer nueva,” concepto que propongo como alternativa al patriarcal "hombre nuevo,” propuesto por Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
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Paola Calahorrano is a PhD Candidate in Hispanic Literature at Boston University currently completing her dissertation, which applies body and performance theory to non-canonical female literature. She received her BA (in Journalism), worked as cultural journalist and editor in Quito, Ecuador, and received an MA (in Hispanic Literature) at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her research focuses on the situation of women during post-revolutionary Mexico and the Civil War in El Salvador, and is based on the overlap betweenliterature and visual culture. She is a Center Associate in the Center of Latin American Studies at University of Pittsburgh.
Lunch will be provided.
For more information: lavst12@pitt.edu