Marguerite Feitlowitz

Marguerite Feitlowitz is an American 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 October 17, 2018.
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. April 1, 2011. ISBN   9780199744695.

External links

• MargueriteFeitlowitz.com - Marguerite Feitlowitz's Official Website