Description
Book SynopsisPresented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, 'testimonio' has emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. This book analyses the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Institutionalization of Transgression: Testimonial Discourse and Beyond (1995) / Georg M. Gugelberger 1
Part I
The Margin at the Center: On
Testimonio (1989) / John Beverley 23
Testimonio and Postmodernism (1991) / George Yudice 42
Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism (1991) / Margaret Randall 58
Testimonio and Survival: Roque Dalton's
Miguel Marmol (1991) / Barbara Harlow 70
Spanish American Testimonial Novel: Some Afterthoughts (1994) / Elzbieta Sklodowska 84
Testimonio in Guatemala: Payeras, Rigoberta, and Beyond (1991) / Marc Zimmerman 101
No Secrets (1995) / Doris Sommer 130
Part II
What's Wrong with Representation?
Testimonio and Democratic Culture (1995) / Santiago Colas 161
On Literary and Cultural Import-Substitution in the Third World: The Case of the Testimonio (1992/93) / Fredric Jameson 172
The Aura of Testimonio (1995) / Alberto Moreiras 192
The Fantasies of Cultural Exchange in Latin American Subaltern Studies (1995) / Gareth Williams 225
Beyond Testimonial Discourse: New Popular Trends in Bolivia (1995) / Javier Sanjines C 254
The Real Thing (1995) / John Beverley 266
Bibliography 287
Index 305
Contributors 315
