Testimonio in Guatemala
Payeras, Rigoberta, and Beyond
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4501459 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Marc Zimmerman (0000-0001-8284-9910, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1991 |
| Volumen | 18 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 22-47 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1991-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x9101800403 |
| OpenAlex | W2085287612 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 8 |
| Referencias citadas | 4 |
As several critics have recently argued, a consideration of Central American testimonial literature is important in study of region's recent years of crisis. Clearly literary and social considerations are necessarily intertwined in testimonio; and form has great value in revealing hidden secrets of popular tradition in relation to questions of resistance, as well as in providing access to situations and modes of thought unknown or poorly understood by officially sanctioned culture (Rodriguez, 1982: 85-86). In this light, testimonio is not only a form of representation of popular ideologies and cultural modes; it is also a means of popular-democratic cultural practice, closely bound with same forces that produce political and military insurgency. Of course there have been varying perspectives on testimonio's origins, referentiality and functionality. For George Yudice (1985), testimonio signals a popular struggle initially conducted within frame of Cuban and then more generally Latin American literary discourse against force of bourgeois boom literature and Western postmodernism. Although not questioning political value or resonance of testimonial discourse, Hugo Achugar (1989) seeks to moderate romantic effusions of leftist champions of testimonio who have seen it as a virtually unmediated voice of a revolutionary tending social subject constructed as the people, arguing that testimonio is inevitably constituted with intervention of and for lettered. Within frame of these two perspectives, I would join with John Beverley (1987, 1989), in proposing that contemporary testimonio signals a transformation of literary production that may well symptomize at least those
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Ideology · Left-wing politics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Sociology · Testimonial · Value (mathematics) · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,29 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 8 |