Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Wounds of Humanity in Diamela Eltit's The Sacred Cow and The Fourth World -- Ricardo Piglia's The Absent City: Oppressed Memories Unearthed -- Ariel Dorfman's Death and The Maiden: Testimonial Theater of the Paranoid -- Griselda Gambaro's Antigona Furiosa: Heriss of Shame and Bride to Freedom -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.