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Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory

Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women's Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory

Bartow, Joanna R.

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 280

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 080789284X
ISBN13: 9780807892848
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects. She questions limits on reading testimonio that until recently have delegitimated the testimonial subject's autonomy. In addition, Bartow shows the importance of a feminist perspective on testimonio, a perspective met with some resistance. In specific ways, feminist theory sheds light on the construction of the testimonial subject, and testimonial writing highlights questions of agency across differences in feminist theory. Subject to Change does not approach testimonial writing as raw material for theory, but rather reads Latin American testimonio -- and the testimonial speaking subject -- as an equally sophisticated interlocutor in debates on difference.

Bartow explores theories of violence, sacrifice, displacement, nomadism, and female identity through works by Rigoberta Menchú, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Elena Poniatowska, Clarice Lispector, and Diamela Eltit.

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