Pushing the boundaries of Latin American testimony : meta-morphoses and migrations /
Detwiler, Louise,1965-
Breckenridge, Janis,1970-
New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Latin American literature
Reportage literature, Latin American
Literature and society
Mass media and culture