Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony
Meta-morphoses and Migrations
Editors: Detwiler, L., Breckenridge, J. (Eds.)
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Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.
- About the authors
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LOUISE DETWILERAssociate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Salisbury University, USA.
JANIS BRECKENRIDGE Assistant Professor of Spanish at Whitman College, USA. - Reviews
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'Detwiler and Breckenridge correctly identify a paradigm shift. Testimonio scholarship and the definition of testimonio as text or transcribed oral testimony have limited the role of marginalized groups the texts are meant to empower. Especially in the late-20th-century and early-21st-century contexts of new media, shifting global relations, truth commissions, post-dictatorial societies in Latin America, new social movements, and continued violations of human rights in neoliberal political circumstances, this collection of essays is timely. This book offers a refreshing step beyond the textual confinements of previous testimonio studies to consider other forms of agency, empowerment and denouncement through testifying to lived experience.'
Joanna R. Bartow, associate professor of Spanish, St. Mary's College of Maryland
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction Points of Departure
Pages 1-7
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Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age
Pages 11-36
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Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre at Work
Pages 37-54
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Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin’s Acta general de Chile
Pages 57-69
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Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Rereading Resistance in Nicaragua
Pages 71-85
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony
- Book Subtitle
- Meta-morphoses and Migrations
- Editors
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- L. Detwiler
- J. Breckenridge
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-01214-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137012142
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-33847-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-34145-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 271
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