Por medio de impresionantes ilustraciones, la autora ofrece una memoria cautivante y conmovedora de la infancia, las relaciones raciales, la etnicidad y la identidad en el sur de los Estados Unidos.

La novela gr�fico de Lila Quintero-Weaver que obtuvo amplio reconocimiento cr�tico. Por medio de impresionantes ilustraciones, la autora ofrece una memoria cautivante y conmovedora de la infancia, las relaciones raciales, la etnicidad y la identidad en el sur de los Estados Unidos. Sus dibujos de estilo sutil, pero efectivo, refuerzan dram�ticament una sentida narraci�n.

En 1961, cuando la autora ten�a cinco a�os, su familia sali� de Buenos Aires, Argentina, para emigrar a los Estados Unidos y establecerse en Marion, un pueblo en el coraz�n del Black Belt de Alabama. En una regi�n definida por la segregaci�n racial, la familia Quintero, por su condici�n de clase media educada, se hall� en una situaci�n privilegiada para observar las tensiones que minaban la cultura y la sociedad en la que viv�an.

Weaver sali� de constancia de lo que signifacaba ser una ni�a latina en una le las regiones m�s racistas del sur de los Estados Unidos, tratando de entender tanto un pa�s extranjero, como el horror de las relaciones raciales de nuestra naci�n. Excluida de las categor�as raciales empleadas por entonces, la autora observ� desde muy temprana edad las desigualdades de la cultura estadounidense, regida por un ideal de belleza femenina que privilegiaba a la mujer rubia y de ojos azules. A lo largo de su vida, Weaver ha luchado por encontrar su lugar en la sociedad norteamericana cuestionando la discriminaci�n de su entorno. Cuarto oscuro contituye su legado visual y verbal sobre esa lucha.

About the Author

Lila Quintero Weaver is the author and illustrator of Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White and an upcoming children’s novel. She has lived in Alabama for most of her life. Since publishing Darkroom, she has spoken and lectured widely about her work at colleges and universities across the United States.

Karina Elizabeth V�zquez received her doctorate in Latin American literature from the University of Florida and currently teaches at University of Richmond in Virginia. She is the author of Fogwill: Realismo y mala conciencia and Aprendices, obreros y fabriqueras: el trabajo industrial en la narrativa argentina del siglo XX, and the coeditor of Insomne pasado: lecturas cr�ticas sobre Latinoam�rica colonial.

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