"My Camera Is Not a Weapon": Indigenous Erasure in Lucía Puenzo's Wakolda

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Abstract:This article analyzes director Lucía Puenzo's film Wakolda (2013) in juxtaposition to the eponymous 2011 novella upon which the film was based. By examining Wakolda through the lens of Argentine cinematic history, this study highlights the ways in which transnational co-production trends and Puenzo's screen adaptions of nuanced literary texts impact the representation of Indigenous subjects in twenty-first-century Latin American film and further contribute to the erasure of historically marginalized groups that has occurred in national discourse throughout Argentine history.