Woman as witness
Subtitle: essays on testimonial literature by Latin American women
By: edited by Linda S. Maier, Isabel Dulfano.
Contributors: Maier, Linda S., 1957-; Dulfano, Isabel, 1959-
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Spanish American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Reportage literature, Spanish American -- History and criticism.; Spanish American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Woman as witness : the case for and case history of women's testimonial literature in Latin America /  Linda S. Maier; value: The crying game : Rigoberta Menchú and the responsibilities of testimonio criticism / Marilyn May Lombardi; value: Essential subversions : reading theory with Latin American women's testimonial discourse" / Joanna R. Bartow; value: Are cultural studies "against literature"? : reading testimonial and film in the Latin American canon / Sophia A. McClennen; value: Testimonio : present predicaments and future forays / Isabel Dulfano; value: Referentiality and fabulation in Nidia Díaz's Nunca estuve sola / Donald L. Shaw; value: Oppositional discourse and the notion of feminism in testimonial narratives by Nidia Díaz and Ana Guadalupe Martínez / Vicki Roman-Lagunas; value: The aventuras and infortunios of Agustina Palacio de Libarona on the Argentine frontier 1840-1841 / Mary G. Berg; value: Victoria Ocampo's making of self in her autobiografía / Mimi Yang; value: The dialectics of desire and rejection in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte, Jesús mío / Ana García Chichester; value: Hay que sonreír and Cola de lagartija by Luisa Valenzuela : narrative as testimonial breakthrough / Alyce Cook; value: Infortunios de la matrona santiagueña Doña Agustina Palacio de Libarona, la heroína del Bracho / Agustina Palacio De Libarona.