Research Catalog

Title

• Pushing the boundaries of Latin American testimony : meta-morphoses and migrations / edited by Louise Detwiler and Janis Breckenridge.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Breckenridge, Janis, 1970-
• Detwiler, Louise, 1965-

Description

viii, 271 p.; 23 cm.

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.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• 1900-talet
• HISTORY > Latin America > General
• HISTORY > South America
• History of the Americas > Latin America
• History
• Latin American literature
• Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literature and society
• Literature and society > Latin America
• Mass media and culture
• Mass media and culture > Latin America
• Political control & freedoms > Latin America
• Political science & theory > Latin America
• Reportage literature, Latin American
• Reportage literature, Latin American > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780230338470 (alk. paper)
• 023033847X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011031571

OCLC

745979564

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library