Kilómetro 11

Mempo Giardinelli ,,Cameron Baumgartner

doi:10.26824/lalr.30

Abstract

Mempo Giardinelli is an author and journalist from the Chaco province of Argentina. He fled to Mexico in 1976, at the beginning of Argentina’s Dirty War, his life endangered by writings the junta considered subversive. “Kilómetro 11,” published in 1999, takes place a few years after Argentina’s Dirty War has ended. It confronts the traumatic political persecution of that era while demonstrating the victims’ enduring humanity through startlingly merciful confrontations with their former jailers.

Highlights

Mempo Giardinelli is an author and journalist from the Chaco province of Argentina. He fled to Mexico in 1976, at the beginning of Argentina’s Dirty War, his life endangered by writings the junta considered subversive
Cameron Baumgartner is a literary translator and fiction writer from Charlottesville, Virginia, where she graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in linguistics and cognitive science
Her original fiction has received the second-place prize in the 2017 Fralin Museum of Art Writer’s Eye competition. She has been working with Mr Giardinelli since January on a series of stories about the Dirty War to serve as cautionary tales for the current global political climate

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Introduction

Mempo Giardinelli is an author and journalist from the Chaco province of Argentina. He fled to Mexico in 1976, at the beginning of Argentina’s Dirty War, his life endangered by writings the junta considered subversive. “Kilómetro 11,” published in 1999, takes place a few years after Argentina’s Dirty War has ended. It takes place a few years after Argentina’s Dirty War has ended, and confronts the traumatic political persecution of that era while demonstrating the victims’ enduring humanity through startlingly merciful confrontations with their former jailers.

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