I. Sources:
• The Little School by Alicia Partnoy
• Readings and materials Module VII

II. Theme:
State sponsored violence and its effects in Latin America
III. Format:

• Why was Partnoy disappeared?
• What other perspective does she bring to the corpus of texts and information regarding the Argentinian dirty war?
• Identify examples of moments of violence in the text? Types of violence?
• Identify Partnoy’s strategies to defy/distract/deter her captors/torturers
• Identify moments that offset the violence of the text: moments of tenderness, compassion, etc. Why are they necessary or even possible in Partnoy’s circumstances?
• What does the missing/desaparecidos add to what historians, political scientists, writers, etc. discuss about Operation Condor and the Dirty War? Is disappearing people a necessary action, especially in wars against the citizen themselves?

Sources will be attatched below:
https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chile/operation-condor.htm