The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press Books, Durham, North Carolina, 1996
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- Title
- The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
- Author
- Gugelberger, Georg M.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books, Durham, North Carolina
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 082231844X
- ISBN 13
- 9780822318446
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Although the literature of testimony arose on the margins of institutional power and its ends were in large part political change, the canonization of testimonio by the academic Left has moved it from margin to center, ironically bringing about the institutionalization of its transgressive and counter-hegemonic qualities. Discussing Latin American works ranging from Salvadorian writer Roque Dalton’s Miguel Marmol to I . . . Rigoberta Menchu, a work that earned its author a Nobel Prize, this collection explores how critical writing about testimonio has turned into discourse about the institution of academia, the canon, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of Latin American studies generally.
Contributors. John Beverley, Santiago Colás, Georg M. Gugelberger, Barbara Harlow, Fredric Jameson, Alberto Moreiras, Margaret Randall, Javier Sanjines, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Doris Sommer, Gareth Williams, George Yúdice, Marc Zimmerman
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About the Author
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.
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