Congratulations to Rodrigo Viqueira, a PhD candidate in our Hispanic Studies program, who has just published “La escritura fonoautográfica de Rodolfo Walsh: la grabadora y la disputa por la voz obrera en ¿Quién mató a Rosendo?” in the Latin America Literary Review. Vol. 49, No. 99, pp. 21-29.
In this article Viqueira delves into sound studies to explore the uses of the tape recorder in the writing of ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (1969) by argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh. He proposes the notion of a phonoautographic writing to refer to a textual practice conceived as a transcription of voices. The article analyzes the phonoautographic writing in ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? and explores how the tape recorder allowed Walsh to incorporate and manipulate the voices of his working-class characters. His argument is that Walsh used the tape recorder to register the workers’ voices in order to rearticulate in a personal way the sonic legacy of Peronism in the late 60s, a moment of crisis in the representation of the Argentine labor movement.
