Pushing the boundaries of Latin American testimony: meta-morphoses and migrations

Pushing the boundaries of Latin American testimony: meta-morphoses and migrations

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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. LOUISE DETWILERAssociate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Salisbury University, USA. JANISBRECKENRIDGE Assistant Professor of Spanish at Whitman College, USA. INDICE: Introduction: Points of Departure; 'L.Detwiler'& 'J.Breckenridge' - PART I: MOVING THEORIES: NEOLIBERALISM AND COALITIONS - Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age;' L.Binford' - Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre in Action; 'P.Connolly' - PART II: POSITIONING OPPOSITIONAL PERFORMANCES: CLANDESTINE, RELUCTANT, AND FALSE WITNESSES - Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin's 'Acta General de Chile; D.W.Foster ' - Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Nicaragua and the Revolution that Was; 'J.M.Medina' - Bearing False Witness? The Politics of Identity in Elsa Osorio's My Name is Light (A veinte años,Luz); 'N.J.Gates-Madsen' - PART III: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES: EMERGING CONTEXTSAND MERGING MEDIUMS - Testimony in Truth Commissions and Social Movements in Latin America; 'L.Stephen ' - Rumors as Testimonios of Insile in La mujer en cuestión (The Woman in Question) by María Teresa Andruetto; 'C.Pubill' - Accomplishing 'Tellable-Tellings': Managing Displays of Faith on Live Radio; 'M.Guzman ' - Embroidered Discourse/s Break the Silence: The CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio;' T.Scholz ' - PART IV: NOVEL LANDSCAPES: COUNTER-GEOGRAPHIES, GRAPHICS, AND TERRA-TRAUMA - Ciudad Juárez as a Palimpsest: Searching forEcotestimonios; 'A.Driver ' - Drawing the Line Between Memory, History, and Artistic Re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Giménez's Graphic Testimonies;'J.Breckenridge' - Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro González's El 13B'aktun: La Nueva Era 2012 (13 B'aktun: Mayan Visions of 2012 and Beyond);' L.Detwiler ' - Conclusion: 'Something that Might Resemble a Call': Testimonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century; 'K.A.Nance ' - '' - ''

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-33847-0
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 282
  • Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés