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Author Nance, Kimberly A.

Title Can literature promote justice? : trauma narrative and social action in Latin American testimonio / Kimberly A. Nance
Edition 1st ed
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages)
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Contents A genre without a strategy? : Latin American testimonio as a rhetorical project -- A genre without an addressee? : readers, rhetoric, and resistance -- A genre without a chance? : predicting the social effectiveness of testimonial narratives -- The capacities and constraints of testimonio's speakers and experiencing writers -- The capacities and constraints of collaborating writers, translators, editors, and publishers -- The capacities and constraints of critics : celebration and mourning -- Conclusion : from poetics to prosaics -- Appendix : A brief history of Latin American testimonial narrative
Summary Can literature play a role in achieving social justice?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index
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Subject Latin American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Latin America
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Latin American prose literature
Literature and society
Dokumentarroman
Dokumentarliteratur -- spanische -- Amerika.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005022819
ISBN 9781441627230
1441627235
1282297155
9781282297159
082651524X
9780826515247
9780826592125
0826592120