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- Title
Female Voice and Feminist Text: Testimonio as a Form of Resistance in Latin America.
- Authors
Smith, Kathryn M.
- Abstract
In this paper, I discuss how key testimonial texts, or testimonio, re-script history, re-define literary conventions and re-inscribe otherwise ignored stories. I argue that Latin American women's testimonio directly challenges the authoritarian powers threatening peace in many countries. I use three case studies: I, Rigoberta Menchú, which denounces military discrimination against indigenous Guatemalans; The Little School, which reveals the Argentinian government's atrocities; and The Inhabited Woman, which criticizes the Nicaraguan government as well as the chauvinism of male revolutionaries. This essay seeks to further recognize testimonio as an empowering and powerful mode of women's resistance at the margins.
- Subjects
LATIN America; ESSAYS; FEMINISM; AUTHORITARIAN personality; GUATEMALAN Americans; ATROCITIES; CHAUVINISM &; jingoism
- Publication
Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies Journal, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1088-4610
- Publication type
Essay