Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony

Introduction: Points of Departure; L.Detwiler & J.Breckenridge PART I: MOVING THEORIES: NEOLIBERALISM AND COALITIONS Writing Fabio Argueta: Testimonio, Ethnography, and Human Rights in the Neoliberal Age; L.Binford Testimonio and Its Travelers: Feminist Deployments of a Genre in Action; P.Connolly PART II: POSITIONING OPPOSITIONAL PERFORMANCES: CLANDESTINE, RELUCTANT, AND FALSE WITNESSES Hiding the Camera in Miguel Littin's Acta General de Chile; D.W.Foster Guerrilla Narratives through the Kaleidoscope of Time: Nicaragua and the Revolution that Was; J.M.Medina Bearing False Witness? The Politics of Identity in Elsa Osorio's My Name is Light ( A veinte años, Luz ); N.J.Gates-Madsen PART III: CONNECTED COMMUNITIES: EMERGING CONTEXTS AND MERGING MEDIUMS Testimony in Truth Commissions and Social Movements in Latin America; L.Stephen Rumors as Testimonios of Insile in La mujer en cuestión ( The Woman in Question ) by María Teresa Andruetto; C.Pubill Accomplishing 'Tellable-Tellings': Managing Displays of Faith on Live Radio; M.Guzman Embroidered Discourse/s Break the Silence: The CPR-Sierra of Guatemala (Re)vive Testimonio; T.Scholz PART IV: NOVEL LANDSCAPES: COUNTER-GEOGRAPHIES, GRAPHICS, AND TERRA-TRAUMA Ciudad Juárez as a Palimpsest: Searching for Ecotestimonios; A.Driver Drawing the Line Between Memory, History, and Artistic Re/creation: Miguel Gallardo and Carlos Giménez's Graphic Testimonies; J.Breckenridge Witnessing the Earth through Gaspar Pedro González's El 13 B'aktun: La Nueva Era 2012 ( 13 B'aktun: Mayan Visions of 2012 and Beyond ); L.Detwiler Conclusion: 'Something that Might Resemble a Call': Testimonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century; K.A.Nance

LOUISE DETWILERAssociate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at Salisbury University, USA.
JANIS BRECKENRIDGE Assistant Professor of Spanish at Whitman College, USA.