Between the Pen and the Rifle
Dilemmas of the Revolutionary Intellectual in Latin America
About the Author
Claudia Gilman was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. After completing postgraduate studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, she earned her doctorate at the University of Buenos Aires. She taught contemporary literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and anthropology of elites in the doctoral program at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. She is a researcher at CONICET, a visual artist, a translator, and a cultural journalist.
She has published essays, fiction, and poetry. She is the author of Mejor mañana (poetry) and of numerous articles on Argentine and Latin American literature, cultural issues, and intellectual history, and the co-author of Preciosas cautivas (narrative fiction). She has specialized in the relationships between art and politics, avant-gardes and regionalisms in Latin America, and the creation of individual and group poetics.
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