L. Etchart

Tupamadre was published by Editions Les Terrasses in 2023. The story mixes narrative texts, poetry and archives in French hybridized with Spanish. His poetry has no rules, no accents and no apostrophes. L. Etchart learned the French language in Montevideo from her family, political refugees in France in the 1970s. She writes with violence and treachery to an imperialist French language. A child of Uruguay's Tupamarx guerrillxs, L. Etchart grew up with memories of struggle, violence, fascism and hope. Her book develops the queer narrative of a childhood. It is mainly centered on the figure of her mother, through the prism of her death from cancer: from local miss to hold-up, from worker to wife, this journey reads a world in the remnants of possible spaces. When it came out, this book was particularly noted for its power and inventiveness.