Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women

ISBN-13: 9780820463247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 218 str.

Maier, Linda S.

Opis

Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The essays in this volume provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of this genre by inquiring into the critical and theoretical debate on the subject as well as analyzing specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American women s testimonial texts. Woman as Witness also includes selections from two testimonial works by Argentine women to advance the creation of a canon of Latin American feminist testimonial."

Spis treści

Contents: Linda S. Maier: Introduction: The Case for and Case History of Women's Testimonial Literature in Latin America - Part 1: Latin American Women's Testimonial Literature: Critical Issues and Challenges - Marilyn May Lombardi: The Crying Game : Rigoberta Menchú and the Responsibilities of Testimonio Criticism - Joanna R. Bartow: Essential Subversions: Reading Theory with Latin American Women's Testimonial Discourse - Sophia A. McClennen: Are Cultural Studies "Against Literature"? Reading Testimonial and Film in the Latin American Canon - Isabel Dulfano: Testimonio : Present Predicaments and Future Forays - Part 2: Woman as Witness in Central America - Donald L. Shaw: Referentiality and Fabulation in Nidia Díaz's Nunca estuve sola - Vicki Román-Lagunas: Oppositional Discourse and the Notion of Feminism in Testimonial Narratives by Nidia Díaz and Ana Guadalupe Martínez - Part 3: Woman as Witness in North and South America (Mexico and Argentinia) - Mary G. Berg: The Aventuras and Infortunios of Agustina Palacio de Libarona on the Argentine Frontier 1840-1841 - Mimi Y. Yang: Victoria Ocampo's Making of Self in Her AutobiografMaking of Self in Her Autobiografía - Ana García Chichester: The Dialectics of Desire and Rejection in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte , Jesús mío - Alyce Cook: Hay que sonreír and Cola de lagartija by Luisa Valenzuela: Narrative as Testimonial Breakthrough - Part 4: Argentine Women's Testimonial Texts: Toward the Formation of a Canon - Mary G. Berg: Introduction - Agustina Palacio de Libarona: Infortunios de la matrona santiagueña doña Agustina Palacio de Libarona la Heroína del Bracho ( 1840 - 42) - Nora Strejilevich, translated by Cristina De La Torre: Excerpt from A Single, Numberless Death .

O autorze

The Editors: Linda S. Maier is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. In addition to publications on twentieth-century Hispanic literature in professional journals and reference manuals, she is the author of Borges and the European Avant-garde (Peter Lang, 1996).
Isabel Dulfano received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University. Her publications on twentieth-century Spanish American women and Chicana writers have appeared in professional journals. Dr. Dulfano's current research focuses on Spain in the European Union and globalization. She is an independent scholar living in Salt Lake City, Utah.