Testimonio at 50
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guadalupe Escobar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 17-32 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x20988692 |
| OpenAlex | W3141699155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
A reassessment of the testimonio genre over the past five decades reveals continuities of state-sponsored violence from the revolutionary period to the present. An analysis of Pamela Yates's 500 Years: Life in Resistance (2017) and Katia Lara's Berta vive (Berta Lives, 2016) shows Cold War reverberations, unfolding deeper histories of dispossession and legacies of resistance. The first uncovers entangled issues of Guatemalan genocide disavowal and extractive industry while the second denounces the political feminicide of the Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres. Both testimonial documentaries mobilize an "archive effect" to contest the optic of colonial capitalism through the ecofeminist perspectives of indigenous women activists. Una reevaluación del género del testimonial durante las últimas cinco décadas revela la continuidad de la violencia estatal desde el período revolucionario hasta el presente. Un análisis de 500 Years: Life in Resistance (2017) de Pamela Yates y Berta vive (2016) de Katia Lara da cuenta de las reverberaciones de la Guerra Fría, desplegando historias más profundas de desposesión y legados de resistencia. La primera obra muestra los intrincados hilos en torno a la negación del genocidio guatemalteco y la industria extractiva, mientras que el segundo denuncia el feminicidio político de la activista ambiental hondureña Berta Cáceres. Ambos documentales testimoniales utilizan un "efecto de archivo" para impugnar la óptica del capitalismo colonial a través de las perspectivas ecofeministas de las activistas indígenas
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Denunciation · Ethnology · Humanities · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · State (computer science) · Testimonial · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America
The real thing
The Right to Look
Biography of a Runaway Slave
Tainted Witness
Terrorizing Women
I… Rigoberta Menchu
The Architecture of Feminicide
The New Imperialism
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
The Long Honduran Night
Woman as Witness
Open Veins of Latin America
Variations under Domestication
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
The Extractive Zone
Voices for the Voiceless
Stollwerk or Bulwark
A dialogue on The Extractive Zone
The River Told Me
Remembering
Testimonio and Postmodernism
The Latin American Green Tide
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |