| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: points of departure / Louise Detwiler and Janis Breckenridge -- Moving theories: neoliberalism and coalitions. Writing Fabio Argueta: testimonio, ethnography, and human rights in the Neoliberal Age / Leigh Binford -- Testimonio and its travelers: feminist deployments of a genre in action / Patricia Connolly -- Positioning oppositional performances: clandestine, reluctant, and false witnesses. Hiding the camera in Miguel Littin's Acta general de Chile / David William Foster -- Guerilla narratives through the kaleidoscope of time: Nicaragua and the revolution that was / Julia M. Medina -- Bearing false witness? the politics of identity in Elsa Osorio's My name is light (A veinte anos, Luz) / Nancy J. Gates-Madsen -- Connected communities: emerging contexts and merging mediums. Testimony in truth commissions and social movements in Latin America / Lynn Stephen -- Rumors as testimonios of insile in La mujer en cuestion (The woman in question) by Maria Teresa Andruetto / Corinne Pubill -- Accomplishing "tellable-tellings": managing displays of faith on live radio / Melissa Guzman -- Embroidered discourse/s break the silence: the CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio / T.M. Linda Scholz -- -- Novel landscapes: counter-geographies, graphics, and terra-trauma. Ciudad Juarez as a palimpsest: searching for ecotestimonios / Alice Driver -- Drawing the line between memory, history, and artistic re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Gimenez's graphic testimonies of Civil War Spain / Janis Breckenridge -- Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez's El 13 B'aktun: La Nueva Era 2012 (13 B'aktun: Mayan visions of 2012 and beyond) / Louise Detwiler -- Conclusion: "something that might resemble a call": testimonial theory and practice in the twenty-first century / Kimberly A. Nance |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Reportage literature, Latin American -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Latin America
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Mass media and culture -- Latin America
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History of the Americas -- Latin America.
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Political science & theory -- Latin America.
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Political control & freedoms -- Latin America.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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History.
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Latin American literature
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Literature and society
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Mass media and culture
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Reportage literature, Latin American
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Reportageliteratur
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Spanisch
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Latinamerikansk litteratur -- historia.
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Dokumentärromaner.
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Reportage.
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Litteratur och samhälle.
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Massmedia och kultur.
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Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Detwiler, Louise, 1965-
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Breckenridge, Janis, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9781137012142 |
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1137012145 |
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