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Title: Woman as Witness

Woman as Witness

Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women

by Linda S. Maier (Volume editor) Isabel Dulfano (Volume editor)
©2004 Monographs VIII, 220 Pages
Romance Studies

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
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.

Biographical notes

Linda S. Maier (Volume editor) Isabel Dulfano (Volume editor)

The Editors: Linda S. Maier is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. In addition to publications on twentieth-century Hispanic literature in professional journals and reference manuals, she is the author of Borges and the European Avant-garde (Peter Lang, 1996). Isabel Dulfano received her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Arizona and her Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University. Her publications on twentieth-century Spanish American women and Chicana writers have appeared in professional journals. Dr. Dulfano’s current research focuses on Spain in the European Union and globalization. She is an independent scholar living in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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