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Author Raboy, Marc, 1948- author.

Title Looking for Alicia : the unfinished life of an Argentinian rebel / by Marc Raboy
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Contents Cover -- LOOKING FOR ALICIA -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Author's Note -- List of Maps -- Family Tree -- Plates -- 1 "So Are We Related?" -- 2 ¡Presente! -- 3 The Outsider's Gaze -- 4 Names, Places, and Pogroms -- 5 Abandonados -- 6 The Rebel of Villa Crespo -- 7 The Making of a Seventies Radical -- 8 The Soldiers of Perón -- 9 Noticias -- 10 The Poet of the Revolution -- 11 Cuba -- 12 The Seeds of Violence -- 13 Underground -- 14 Montoneras -- 15 The Coup -- 16 Mendoza -- 17 The Aftermath -- 18 And What Did They Want for Their Daughter? -- 19 The Reckoning
20 In the Inferno -- 21 Unfinished Business -- 22 Legacy -- Appendix: Testimony of Survivors of D2 -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Acronyms & Initialisms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "A chill overtook me as I absorbed the details of Alicia's story. Alicia and Paco were members of a revolutionary organization, the Montoneros, Argentina's most consequential urban guerrilla group of the 1970s. I remembered that when news of Argentina's desaparecidos -- the disappeared -- began to be reported, I occasionally wondered what my fate might have been had my grandfather remained in Argentina. Here, on the screen before me, was one possible answer to that question. Like so many of my generation, I had been involved in political activism, to a degree. I was never a member of any revolutionary organization but I knew people who were, and in Argentina that would have been enough. Argentina in the 1970s turned out to be a deadly place for youthful idealism. As many as 30,000 people, mostly in their 20s, were killed or "disappeared" (which became a verb during this era) between 1975 and 1983 in what Argentinians commonly refer to today as the period of terrorismo de Estado -- State Terrorism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2022)
Subject Disappeared persons -- Argentina
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Argentina
Disappeared persons
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
Argentina
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021052636
ISBN 9780190058111
0190058110
9780190058128
0190058129