something fierce memoirs of a revolutionary daughter

READ ALSO: New dinosaur species from Chile had a unique slashing tailĭo you have a story tip? Email: us on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. READ ALSO: Playwright explores rules of breaking up with friends The lecture is part of the Orion Series in Fine Arts, which aims to bring distinguished visitors from other parts of Canada – and the world – to the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Registration can be done online at uvic.ca/events. The readings will be followed by a question and answer period. The Thursday lecture, set to start at 12:30 p.m., will be available both in-person and remotely and attendees are advised the readings will contain subject matter related to sexual assault. The 2020 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre finalist and graduate of Langara College’s Studio 58 theatre school will read from her new play The Consent Club and from her best-selling memoir Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love, and Forgiveness After Trauma.Īguirre’s memoir is a sequel to Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, an international bestseller and CBC Canada Reads award winner, which provides a firsthand account of a young revolutionary living in dictator Augusto Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s. (Aug.Nationally lauded playwright and writer Carmen Aguirre is featured in a free lecture on memoir and satire writing at the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre and online Feb. Aguirre’s writing is splendid she combines black humor and a sharp intellect and tells her powerful story in grand style. On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup that removed Salvador Allende, the. Dressed as a professional with her hair streaked with blond highlights, her makeup heavy, and her shoulder pads huge, she battled back her fears of being imprisoned and tortured: “The Terror came in waves, sometimes forcing me to hang on to walls as I walked down the street.” While adroitly chronicling her remarkable childhood within the constricted world of exiled revolutionaries, Aguirre simultaneously untangles the complex political, economic, and cultural currents sweeping South America, ushering in the brutal Pinochet dictatorship. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. Relocating to Argentina, she carried out dangerous missions while having the cover of an ordinary day job.

At 18, Aguirre became a member of the resistance. The family settled in La Paz, Bolivia, setting up a safe house for individuals involved in the struggle. Many women sent their children to Cuba to live with relatives rather then take them back to Chile and imperil their safety.

Five years later the Chilean resistance called for exiled activists to return to South America. Aguirre’s parents fled to Canada in 1974 after the overthrow of the democratically elected Salvador Allende. Aguirre’s riveting memoir chronicles her childhood as the daughter of Chilean resistance fighters.

Something fierce memoirs of a revolutionary daughter