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Georg M. Gugelberger is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside and Director of the University of California’s Education Abroad Program at U.N.A.M. in Mexico City.
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Institutionalization of Transgression: Testimonial Discourse and Beyond (1995) / Georg M. Gugelberger 1
Part I
The Margin at the Center: On
Testimonio (1989) / John Beverley 23
Testimonio and Postmodernism (1991) / George Yudice 42
Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism (1991) / Margaret Randall 58
Testimonio and Survival: Roque Dalton's
Miguel Marmol (1991) / Barbara Harlow 70
Spanish American Testimonial Novel: Some Afterthoughts (1994) / Elzbieta Sklodowska 84
Testimonio in Guatemala: Payeras, Rigoberta, and Beyond (1991) / Marc Zimmerman 101
No Secrets (1995) / Doris Sommer 130
Part II
What's Wrong with Representation?
Testimonio and Democratic Culture (1995) / Santiago Colas 161
On Literary and Cultural Import-Substitution in the Third World: The Case of the Testimonio (1992/93) / Fredric Jameson 172
The Aura of Testimonio (1995) / Alberto Moreiras 192
The Fantasies of Cultural Exchange in Latin American Subaltern Studies (1995) / Gareth Williams 225
Beyond Testimonial Discourse: New Popular Trends in Bolivia (1995) / Javier Sanjines C 254
The Real Thing (1995) / John Beverley 266
Bibliography 287
Index 305
Contributors 315
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Summary
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, 'testimonio' has emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. This book analyses the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness.
