Abstract: The object of the article is the figure of Mika Etchebéhère, an Argentine revolutionary of Russian origin who arrives in Europe, first in Germany, where she witnesses the incipient Nazism of the thirties, and later in Spain. Here she participates in the Spanish Civil War of 1939. She will become the only woman to command a battalion of POUM revolutionaries. This war experience is celebrated in the novel La Miliziana (2012) by Elsa Osorio, an Argentine writer, who traces the history of Mika, the first Argentine years, the years in Paris, in the Trotskyist intellectual circle and then to the Berlin of the Thirties. Mika and her husband, the beloved Hipólito Etchebéhère, will then move to Spain, where they will arrive a few days before the nationalist coup and where they will marry the republican cause, engaging themselves in the resistance in the trenches. The main objective of the article is to contribute to giving visibility to an extraordinary woman marginalized and forgotten by the Official History. Keywords: Mika Etchebéhère; social and political commitment; Civil War
L’articolo assume come oggetto la figura di Mika Etchebéhère, rivoluzionaria argentina di origini russe che arriva in Europa, prima in Germania, dove assiste al nazismo incipiente degli anni Trenta, e in seguito in Spagna. Qui partecipa alla Guerra Civile spagnola del ‘39 diventando l’unica donna a comandare un battaglione di rivoluzionari del POUM. Questa sua esperienza bellica è celebrata nel romanzo La Miliziana (2012) di Elsa Osorio, scrittrice argentina, che ripercorre la storia di Mika, i primi anni argentini, gli anni a Parigi, nella cerchia intellettuale trotskista e quindi alla Berlino degli anni Trenta. Mika e il marito, l’amatissimo Hipólito Etchebéhère, si trasferiranno poi in Spagna, dove arriveranno proprio pochi giorni prima del golpe nazionalista e dove non potranno non sposare la causa repubblicana impegnandosi in prima persona nella resistenza in trincea. L’obiettivo principale del contributo è quello di concorrere a dare visibilità a una donna straordinaria marginalizzata e dimenticata dalla Storia Ufficiale. Parole chiave: Mika Etchebéhère; impegno sociale e politico; Guerra Civile
Mika Etchebéhère: impegno sociale e politico di una donna dimenticata dalla storia ufficiale
Trinis Antonietta Messina Fajardo
2019-01-01
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Abstract: The object of the article is the figure of Mika Etchebéhère, an Argentine revolutionary of Russian origin who arrives in Europe, first in Germany, where she witnesses the incipient Nazism of the thirties, and later in Spain. Here she participates in the Spanish Civil War of 1939. She will become the only woman to command a battalion of POUM revolutionaries. This war experience is celebrated in the novel La Miliziana (2012) by Elsa Osorio, an Argentine writer, who traces the history of Mika, the first Argentine years, the years in Paris, in the Trotskyist intellectual circle and then to the Berlin of the Thirties. Mika and her husband, the beloved Hipólito Etchebéhère, will then move to Spain, where they will arrive a few days before the nationalist coup and where they will marry the republican cause, engaging themselves in the resistance in the trenches. The main objective of the article is to contribute to giving visibility to an extraordinary woman marginalized and forgotten by the Official History. Keywords: Mika Etchebéhère; social and political commitment; Civil WarI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
