Witness and Memory
Subtitle: The Discourse of Trauma
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 18, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415944540
First sentence: The consumption of testimonial literatures on American campuses, and the almost reverential treatment these texts have received, have recently come under intense scrutiny with the publication of an anthropological study of the single most celebrated text of witness of the last two decades, Me llamo Rigoberta Menchu y asi me nacio la conciencia.