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Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

viii, 271 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Reportage literature, Latin American--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Latin America.
Mass media and culture--Latin America.

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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:

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

OCLC:

(OCoLC)745979564

LCCN:

2011031571

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)