Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony [electronic resource] : Meta-morphoses and Migrations /
Detwiler, L.editor.
Breckenridge, J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Points of Departure; Part I: Moving Theories: Neoliberalism and Coalitions; 1 Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age; 2 Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre at Work; Part II: Positioning Oppositional Performances: Clandestine, Reluctant, and False Witnesses; 3 Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin's Acta general de Chile; 4 Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Rereading Resistance in Nicaragua
5 Bearing False Witness? The Politics of Identity in Elsa Osorio's My Name Is Light (A veinteanos, Luz)Part III: Connected Communities: EmergingContexts and MergingMediums; 6 Testimony in Truth Commissions and Social Movements in Latin America; 7 Rumors as Testimonios of Insile in La mujer en cuestión (The Woman in Question) by María Teresa Andruetto; 8 Accomplishing "Tellable-Tellings": Managing Displays of Faith on Live Radio; 9 Embroidered Discourse/s Break the Silence: The CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio
Part IV: Novel Landscapes: Counter-Geographies, Graphics, and Terra-Trauma10 Ciudad Juárez as a Palimpsest: Searching for Ecotestimonios; 11 Drawing the Line between Memory, History, and Artistic Re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Giménez's Graphic Testimonies; 12 Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro González's El 13 B'aktun: la nueva era 2012: (13 B'aktun: Mayan Visions of 2012 and Beyond); Conclusion: "Something That Might Resemble a Call": Testimonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Latin America-Politics and government.
International relations.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Political science.
America-Literatures.
Communication.
Latin American Politics.
International Relations.
Latin American Culture.
Political Science.
North American Literature.
Media Studies.