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Luisa Valenzuela

Date of Birth 26-November-1938
Place of Birth Buenos Aires
(Argentina, South America, Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province)
Nationality Argentina
Profession Writer
Luisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra, Cambio de armas and Cola de lagartija combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.

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