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Additional authors

1. Maier, Linda S., 1957-
2. Dulfano, Isabel, 1959-

Description

1. viii, 218 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Reportage literature, Spanish American > History and criticism
2. Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
3. Women and literature > Latin America > History > 20th century
4. Spanish American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism

Contents

1. Woman as witness : the case for and case history of women's testimonial literature in Latin America / Linda S. Maier -- The crying game : Rigoberta Menchú and the responsibilities of testimonio criticism / Marilyn May Lombardi -- Essential subversions : reading theory with Latin American women's testimonial discourse" / Joanna R. Bartow --
2. Are cultural studies "against literature"? : reading testimonial and film in the Latin American canon / Sophia A. McClennen -- Testimonio : present predicaments and future forays / Isabel Dulfano -- Referentiality and fabulation in Nidia Díaz's Nunca estuve sola / Donald L. Shaw -- Oppositional discourse and the notion of feminism in testimonial narratives by Nidia Díaz and Ana Guadalupe Martínez / Vicki Roman-Lagunas --
3. The aventuras and infortunios of Agustina Palacio de Libarona on the Argentine frontier 1840-1841 / Mary G. Berg -- Victoria Ocampo's making of self in her autobiografía / Mimi Yang -- The dialectics of desire and rejection in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte, Jesús mío / Ana García Chichester -- Hay que sonreír and Cola de lagartija by Luisa Valenzuela : narrative as testimonial breakthrough / Alyce Cook -- Infortunios de la matrona santiagueña Doña Agustina Palacio de Libarona, la heroína del Bracho / Agustina Palacio De Libarona.

Call number

1. JFE 05-665

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. Woman as witness : essays on testimonial literature by Latin American women / edited by Linda S. Maier, Isabel Dulfano.

Imprint

1. New York : P. Lang, c2004.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Maier, Linda S., 1957-
2. Dulfano, Isabel, 1959-

LCCN

1. 2002154656

ISBN

1. 0820463248 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 05-665