Books written by Carmen Aguirre
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Looks at the experiences of Carmen Aguirre, who fled to Canada with her family after General Augusto Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973 and then returned five years later to become a militant in the Chilean resistance.
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Chile Con Carne and Other Early Works
These are impacts refugees cannot escape even when they manage to flee to physical safety; the plays' explorations of refuge and recovery are as pertinent now as they were when they were first written."--
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Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America.
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Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution
Mexican Hooker #1 is a powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood trauma.
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Something Fierce: A Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughter
Something Fierce: A Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughter
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
MARGARET RANDALL, author of To Change the World “Something Fierce is energetic, funny and dark, thoughtful and moving, toldfrom the perspective ofagirl growing into womanhood in a household where to be in the resistance was always ...
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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath.
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Anywhere But Here
"Anywhere but Here is a magic realism-inflected play following a family on a journey back to Chile from Canada.