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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2002154656
ISBN0820463248 (hard cover : alk. paper)

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