Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony: Meta-morphoses and Migrations

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction Points of Departure....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age....Pages 11-36
Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre at Work....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin’s Acta general de Chile ....Pages 57-69
Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Rereading Resistance in Nicaragua....Pages 71-85
Bearing False Witness? The Politics of Identity in Elsa Osorio’s My Name Is Light (A veinte años, Luz) ....Pages 87-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Testimony in Truth Commissions and Social Movements in Latin America....Pages 109-129
Rumors as Testimonios of Insile in La mujer en cuestión (The Woman in Question) by María Teresa Andruetto....Pages 131-145
Accomplishing “Tellable-Tellings”: Managing Displays of Faith on Live Radio....Pages 147-164
Embroidered Discourse/s Break the Silence: The CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio....Pages 165-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Ciudad Juárez as a Palimpsest: Searching for Ecotestimonios....Pages 181-200
Drawing the Line between Memory, History, and Artistic Re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Giménez’s Graphic Testimonies....Pages 201-220
Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro González’s El 13 ....Pages 221-238
Conclusion “Something That Might Resemble a Call”: Testimonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 239-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-271