Two Roads Against Censorship: The Diverging "J'accuse" Letters of Rodolfo Walsh and María Elena Walsh and Their Influence on Current Argentine "Cronistas"
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[1] Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Santiago, Chile
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- Localización: The Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism / John S. Bak (ed. lit.), Bill Reynolds (ed. lit.), 2023, ISBN 978-0-367-35524-1, págs. 384-396
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Rodolfo Walsh, widely considered the father of Latin American literary journalism (crónica) with his influential Operación Masacre (1957), wrote an open letter to the Argentine military junta that confronted and denounced its crimes of kidnapping and torture of the nation’s many “disappeared.” On the very day that he was distributing the letter, he was kidnapped and his body was never recovered. This chapter looks again at Walsh but argues that another Walsh, the poet, singer, and songwriter María Elena Walsh, should equally be hailed as a champion of human rights against Argentine censorship. Her op-ed “Misadventures in the Kindergarten-Country,” published in the main Argentine daily Clarín, deals not with killings but with the repression, censorship, and infantilization of ideas and artists in times of tyranny. Both Walshes represent the fight against brutal dictatorship in Argentina, and the insidious venom of self-censorship.
