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The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America

The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 082231844X
ISBN13: 9780822318446
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 20 1996
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a genuine form of resistance literature, testimonio has since undergone a significant change in its critical reception. The essays in The Real Thing analyze the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness.

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