Woman as Witness
Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women
©2004
Monographs
VIII,
220 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- VIII, 220
- Publication Year
- 2004
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820463247
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Geschichte 1980-2000 Hispanoamerika Dokumentarliteratur Frauenliteratur Aufsatzsammlung
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2003. VIII, 220 pp.
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