Woman as witness : essays on testimonial literature by Latin American women /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Maier, Linda S., 1957-, Dulfano, Isabel, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, [2004]
Subjects:	Spanish American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Reportage literature, Spanish American > History and criticism. Spanish American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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
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 of Nidia Díaz and Ana Guadalupe Martínez / Vicki Román-Lagunas
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 Y. 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 (1840-42) / Agustina Palacio de Librarona
Excerpt from A single, numberless death / Nora Strejilevich, translated by Cristina de la Torre.