About

Ana Forcinito is a professor in the Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is an affiliated faculty member with the Human Rights Program, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Graduate Minor in Moving Image Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change. Her research focuses on Latin American literature, trauma, memory, gender, and human rights, with a particular interest in posthumanities, feminist perspectives, and the intersections of art, literature, and social justice. She has edited and contributed to numerous publications, including books and special issues on topics such as posthumanism, memory, violence, and gender-based violence, and her work explores the cultural and artistic expressions related to these themes.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Humanities
• Psychology
• Gender studies
• Communication
• Geography
• Art
• Cartography
• Art history

Selected publications

• Are You Listening? Voices and Images in Gabriela David’s Taxi, un encuentro (2001) and Lucía Puenzo’s El niño pez (2009)

  Springer eBooks · 2023

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  • Humanities
  • Sociology
  • Cartography
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• MEMORIAS POSHUMANAS DE CUERPOS FUMIGADOS: DEVENIR Y ESPECTRALIDAD EN <i>DISTANCIA DE RESCATE</i> DE SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN Y LA VERSIÓN CINEMATOGRÁFICA DE CLAUDIA LLOSA

  Revista Iberoamericana · 2023-10-24 · 1 citations

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  Este ensayo examina la novela Distancia de rescat e de Samanta Schweblin y la versión cinematográfica de Claudia Llosa en el marco de los efectos que las agroindustrias sojeras y los pesticidas tienen en la salud humana y ambiental. En especial, analizo las expresiones poshumanistas (Braidotti, Alaimo) de la supervivencia a partir de una serie de devenires (Deleuze y Guattari) y espectralidades (Ludueña) como componentes articuladores de memorias poshumanas en la novela, en primer lugar, y luego a través de una serie de transformaciones en el pasaje transmedial de la versión cinematográfica.

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• Literature, Trauma, and Human Rights

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-11-29

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  This chapter underscores the role that literature played not only in articulating the demands for justice that accompanied human rights struggles after the military dictatorships in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s but also in offering a space for the reconstruction of narrative memory and the exploration (and reinterpretation) of the traumatic events of the past. As neoliberalism was imposed with mass killings, clandestine detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and rape, many literary narratives gave visibility to criminal and clandestine illegal practices and created alternative archives, in those cases in which the official ones had been erased. Latin American literature became one of the most privileged spaces for the construction of memory in post-dictatorships. Linked to human rights struggles and processes of democratization, different aesthetics of memory expanded the notion of memory coming from legal and judicial discussions, as well as from the approaches of the social sciences. On the one hand, the literary texts I will discuss in this chapter exposed illegal forms of violence, responding to the urgency of making them public. On the other hand, they delved into different ways of representing traumatic experiences as well as the borders, silences, and fragments of the recollections of the past. In this chapter, I will approach the aesthetics of memory from different angles, from the emphasis on the crimes to the silence and forgetting, to the analysis of the relationship between the body and affect, or the long-lasting effects of violence and trauma in the present, and even the difficulties of remembering and of making sense of painful experiences.

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• Women Filmmakers in Argentina

  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History · 2022-08-14

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  Abstract This article offers an overview of some of the most important Argentine women filmmakers along with some tendencies that could serve to organize four decades of films, shorts, and documentaries. The article also examines some of the main paths that women filmmakers have taken in their revision and transformation of the relationship between the visual/aural dimension of cinematographic language and the patriarchal regime of the image and the voice. The films discussed in this chapter challenge the still-dominant masculine visual regime through aesthetic projects that reveal the worlds made invisible and erased by marginalization, authoritarianism, violence, sexism, homophobia, abjection, racism, inequality, discrimination, and impunity. Feminism is undoubtedly a vital framework for analyzing the history of women filmmakers in ArgentiIt appears sometimes at the center of the audiovisual project and, other times, outside the frame. This article explores the intersections among different aesthetic concerns, and in particular attempts to show that the discussion of women filmmakers in Argentina should not be limited to only two or three names but should include a vast number of women filmmakers and their innovative visions. From the first decades of the Twentieth century to the present, Argentine women filmmakers have taken different paths in their revision and transformation of the relation between the visual/aural dimension of cinematographic language and the patriarchal regime of the image and the voice. The feminist dimension of some of their films has challenged masculine and heteronormative norms through aesthetic projects that revealed what remained invisible and erased by authoritarianism, violence, sexism, homophobia, abjection, racism, inequality, discrimination, and impunity. Feminism—expressed in different waves of the feminist movement and with different degrees of intersectionality— is undoubtedly a vital framework for analyzing the history of women filmmakers in Argentina. It has framed the aesthetic concerns and the innovative visions women filmmakers have been proposing about the domestic, the intimate, and the political.

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• Gender and Sexuality

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022

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  • Sociology
  • Gender studies
  • Sociology

  Both dictatorships and democracies are conceived in Bolaño’s texts within the framework of a patriarchal order in which sexual impulses and pleasure in the mutilation of women and children are not only the legacy of the authoritarian abuses of dictatorships but also the very condition of the formation of the legal apparatuses of democratic states. Many of the approaches to gender in Bolaño have focused on the killing of women in Ciudad Juarez. What I contend in these pages is that the normalization of violence against women or more subtle ways of erasing women’s visions (in particular in relation to strong or independent women) is what most calls for a feminist reflection in Bolaño’s world, because what is exposed is precisely the simultaneity of autonomy and vulnerability. Gender violence in Bolaño also involves the inexorable link between masculinity and rape/feminicide. And it is precisely within this link that literature plays such a central role, not only in the exposure of violence, but also in a more silent (and hidden) consent to sexual violence and the killing of women.

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• Los bordes de la ley: la escena judicial y la violencia de género en el cine argentino

  Cuadernos de Literatura · 2022-10-16

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  En este ensayo analizo cuatro instancias en la representación del escenario jurídico-legal en relación con la violencia de género (en especial la violación sexual y el femicidio) dentro el cine argentino desde los noventa. A pesar de que en todos los casos hay un cuestionamiento de la justicia (y una puesta en escena de lo injusto), en todas las películas que analizaré se plantean diferentes dilemas legales o jurídicos. Ya sea en forma de denuncia de un crimen que conmocionó a toda la sociedad argentina (El caso María Soledad), o de un cuestionamiento de la justicia en plena época de impunidad y neoliberalismo y una simultánea invisibilización del género y de las mujeres (Cenizas del paraíso), o de un cuestionamiento de la justicia y los resabios del Estado terrorista, pero ahora anclado en la pregunta sobre un femicidio (El secreto de sus ojos), o una discusión teórica sobre la justicia que hace uso del cadáver de una joven mujer como telón de fondo y como excusa para discutir el poder masculino del derecho (Tesis sobre un homicidio). Los films que voy a analizar delinean la ley y, sobre todo, sus bordes, es decir, lo que no queda representado en el escenario legal o jurídico, pero que es muchas veces determinante de decisiones judiciales que atentan contra la justicia y contra los derechos de las mujeres.

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• Chapter 4. Being Unable to See and Being Invisible: Unrecognisable, Inaudible Voices in Fish, New Argirópolis and Muta

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2022-04-04

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• Being Unable to see and Being Invisible: Unrecognisable, Inaudible Voices in Fish , New Argirópolis and Muta

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2022-04-26

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  This chapter discusses the use of sound in three short films directed by Lucrecia Martel: <italic>Fish</italic> (2010), <italic>New Argirópolis</italic> (2010), and <italic>Muta</italic> (2011), and analyses the recurrent use of whispers and distorted and unrecognisable voices as the key for grasping what remains invisible (or at least opaque and blurry). Martel’s short films made in the new millennium might be read as experimental attempts to point to what remains outside the visual field or what, if within the frame, is blurred, by depicting the disjunction between sound and image. It is precisely through this emphasis on opacity and the difficulty of seeing, that the aesthetics of the visible (the use of the frame, the exposure of a blurry visuality) enters in dialogue with the aesthetics of the audible, and in particular, with non-discernible voices that point to marginal subjects that are either invisible or inaudible.

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• Reframing Transitional Justice: Memory, Interdisciplinarity, and Transformative Ways of Seeing

  Latin American Research Review · 2021-09-07

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  This essay reviews the following works: <strong>The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications.</strong> By Leigh Binford. Revised and expanded ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. Pp. 400. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780816532162. <strong>Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory.</strong> By Erik Ching. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 362. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469628660. <strong>The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms, and Capacity Building.</strong> By Ezequiel A. González-Ocantos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $18.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781108799089. <strong>The Feathers of Condor: Transnational State Terrorism, Exiles and Civilian Anticommunism in South America.</strong> By Fernando López. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. Pp. 375. £57.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781443897099. <strong>Eruptions of Memory: The Critique of Memory in Chile, 1990–2015.</strong> By Nelly Richard. Translated by Andrew Ascherl. Pp. xxvi + 189. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. Pp. 224. $22.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781509532285. <strong>Exile, Diaspora, and Return: Changing Cultural Landscapes in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.</strong> By Luis Roniger, Leonardo Senkman, Saúl Sosnowski, and Mario Sznajder. Pp. 304. $82.00 hardcover. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780190693961. <strong>Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina.</strong> By Barbara Sutton. New York: New York University Press, 2018. Pp. v + 325. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781479829927. <strong>Memory, Truth, and Justice in Contemporary Latin America.</strong> Edited by Roberta Villalón. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. vi + 274. $41.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781442267251.

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• Migraciones, derechos humanos y acciones locales

  2020 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Kelly S. McDonough

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• Raúl Marrero-Fente

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• Fernando Salgado Ordóñez

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• Sévane Garibian

  Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po

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• Ana Melisa Pardo Montaño

  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

  1 shared

• Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

  University of Geneva

  1 shared

• Barbara A. Frey

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• Zahira Araguete Toribio

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Awards & honors

• University of Minnesota Motley Award for Exemplary Teaching…
• Casa de las Américas Award for the book Óyeme con los ojos (…
• Recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society
• Recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Humanities Programs…
• Recipient of grants from the Institute of Advanced Studies