Traces. Memories of Resistance: “Continuity of Islands.” Short story. “Ars Poetica.”

This book includes creative works of survivors of the State terrorism in Argentina. On each page the painful past emerges to be re-elaborated and approached from different angles, and is projected to new audiences. Some memories touch us deeply; others make us smile in spite of the unusual background. Beyond the diversity of voices, colors and nuances, these texts uncover the same attitude facing policies of annihilation. It is this clash of wills which will allow the reader explore the Argentina of that period and at the same time find valuable examples of resistance to oppression. M. C. Sillato This book is a brilliant answer to Walter Benjamin’s famous question: “Who testifies for the witness?” Well, the twenty men and women who have left their Traces here. Each author has lived the experience of the horror and has used his/her most poetic and courageous voice to tell his/her own story. Their acts of memory are another way of healing the social wounds that pierce us all. I am deeply grateful to María del Carmen Sillato for imagining and implementing this rare anthology that will accompany us as a light in the darkness, so that darkness will never surround us again. Luisa Valenzuela, writer