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

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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.


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Maier (Spanish, University of Alabama) and Dulfano, a scholar on Spain in the European Union, provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of Latin American testimonial narrative by analyzing the critical and theoretical debate on the subject and examining the work of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American women's testimonial texts. In addition to essays by contributors in Spanish, women's studies, and Latin American culture, the book includes selections from two testimonial works by Argentine women. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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