Marguerite Feitlowitz is an author and translator whose work has focused on "languages-within-languages" and the way disaster "affects our relationship to language."[1] She is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, as well as numerous essays and translations.[2]

A vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record, Feitlowitz has published a number of articles on the subject in Salon [1] and The International Herald Tribune [2]

She is a professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont.

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  • 2011 [1998]. A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-74469-5.

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  1. ^ "Marguerite Feitlowitz | About". margueritefeitlowitz.com. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  2. ^ A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue (New to this ed.). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2011-04-01. ISBN 9780199744695.
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