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  • Yosa Vidal

    Yosa Vidal

    Lecturer

    BioYosa Vidal is a Visiting Lecturer of Latin American Literature and Culture at Stanford Univerisity. She holds a Ph.D. from University of Oregon, and her teaching and research areas include Latinx and Latin American Studies, Gender Politics, Memory Studies, Comic Studies and Philosophy.

    From graphic humor to the testimonies of victims of state-sponsored violence, her research contributes to the field of Latin American Memory Studies by acknowledging the history of those who were defeated unheroically. Specifically, it engages with a gap in the critical scholarship on resistance, historical memory, and trauma in the Southern Cone, and integrates fictional and non-fictional texts, expanding the notion of documentation and memory.

    In her book project Memorias de la traición y traición de la memoria: Narrativas de la derrota en Chile y Argentina she argues that representations of betrayal, often evoking terrible forms of torture and suffering, allow a critique of a patriarchal and epic vision of the traumatic past in the Global South. Memories of Betrayal examines betrayal in three different genres: Marcia Merino’s testimony My Truth. Beyond Horror, I Accuse, (Chile, 1993); the graphic novel Perramus by Juan Sasturain and Alberto Breccia (Argentina, 1985); and Enrique Lihn’s play, Dialogues of the Disappeared (Chile, written between 1973 and 1976 and published in 2018).

    Vidal has co-edited El loco Estero with Miguel Saralegui, by Ediciones Cátedra (2021). As a fictional writer, she has published El Tarambana, (Tajamar 2013, Mármara 2016), Los multipatópodos (Overol 2017) and Vals chilote (Mantis 2022, Fondo de Cultura Económica 2022).


    Selected publications:

    “Ontología de la traición: El cuerpo torturado del traidor en Marcia Merino, Mi Verdad (1993)”. En Traidores, traidoras y rebeldes. Santiago: Colección IDEA, USACH. 2023

    “Patas de perro: Un aullido hacia el futuro”. En Pusilánimes y genuflexos: Asedios a la obra y figura de Carlos Droguett. Santiago: Carbon Libros. 2023

    “El cuerpo, la traición y el asco: estrategias cinematográficas en La flaca Alejandra, vidas y muertes de una mujer chilena de Carmen Castillo (1994)”. Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. vol. 19, no. 2, 2022, pp. 183–94

    “The Aesthetic and Political Economy of Betrayal in Oesterheld's Two Versions of The Eternaut I”. Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, vol. 5 no. 2, 2021, pp. 155-172

    “Subjetividad y política en las Memorias de Carlos Prats”. La violencia del lenguaje y la promesa de la escritura. Santiago: Metales Pesados. 2019

    “Encuentros y desencuentros de Oesterheld en Chile”. Revista Tebeosfera. (2016, ACYT) -3ª EPOCA.

    “Humor y Miedo: metáfora y elipsis en la representación del dictador”. Hispamérica (College Park), vol. 44, no. 130, 2015, pp. 107–14.

    “Imágenes de muertos: caricatura y rostro en la historieta política”. Dibujos que hablan. Santiago: Universidad de Santiago de Chile. 2017