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Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony

Meta-morphoses and Migrations

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  • © 2012

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  1. Louise Detwiler
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  2. Janis Breckenridge
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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.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction Points of Departure

    1. Introduction Points of Departure

      • Louise Detwiler, Janis Breckenridge
      Pages 1-7

  3. Moving Theories: Neoliberalism and Coalitions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age

      • Leigh Binford
      Pages 11-36

    3. Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre at Work

      • Patricia Connolly
      Pages 37-54

  4. Positioning Oppositional Performances: Clandestine, Reluctant, and False Witnesses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin’s Acta general de Chile

      • David William Foster
      Pages 57-69

    3. Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Rereading Resistance in Nicaragua

      • Julia M. Medina
      Pages 71-85

    4. Bearing False Witness? The Politics of Identity in Elsa Osorio’s My Name Is Light (A veinte años, Luz)

      • Nancy J. Gates-Madsen
      Pages 87-106

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 249-271
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Reviews

'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

About the authors

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.

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