Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Latin American Testimonio and Testimonial Criticism as Project, Process, and Product 1 1. A Genre Without a Strategy? Latin American Testimonio as a Rhetorical Project 19 2. A Genre Without an Addressee? Readers, Rhetoric, and Resistance 48 3. A Genre Without a Chance? Predicting the Social Effectiveness of Testimonial Narratives 66 4. The Capacities and Constraints of Testimonio’s Speakers and Experiencing Writers 100 5. The Capacities and Constraints of Collaborating Writers, Translators, Editors, and Publishers 119 6. The Capacities and Constraints of Critics: Celebration and Mourning 137 viii Conclusion: From Poetics to Prosaics 157 Appendix: A Brief History of Latin American Testimonial Narrative 167 Notes 179 Works Cited 193 Index 207 ...