Can literature promote justice?
Subtitle: trauma narrative and social action in Latin American testimonio
By: Kimberly A. Nance.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Latin American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A genre without a strategy? : Latin American testimonio as rhetorical project; title: A genre without an addressee? : readers,   rhetoric and resistance; title: A genre without a chance? : predicting testimonio's social effectiveness; title: Capacities and constraints of testimonio's speakers and experiencing writers; title: Capacities and constraints of collaborating writers : translators, editors, and publishers; title: Capacities and constraints of critics : celebration and mourning; title: From poetics to prosaics; title: Latin American testimonial narrative: a brief history.