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The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
- Editor(s): Georg M. Gugelberger
- Contributor(s): Georg M. Gugelberger, John Beverley, George Yúdice, Margaret Randall, Barbara Harlow, Marc Zimmerman, Doris Sommer, Santiago Colás, Fredric Jameson, Alberto Moreiras, Gareth Williams, Javier Sanjines C.
- Pages: 328
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- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Institutionalization of Transgression: Testimonial Discourse and Beyond (1995) / Georg M. Gugelberger 1
- Part I
- The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (1989) / John Beverley 23
- Testimonio and Postmodernism (1991) / George Yudice 42
- Reclaiming Voices: Notes on a New Female Practice in Journalism (1991) / Margaret Randall 58
- Testimonio and Survival: Roque Dalton's Miguel Marmol (1991) / Barbara Harlow 70
- Spanish American Testimonial Novel: Some Afterthoughts (1994) / Elzbieta Sklodowska 84
- Testimonio in Guatemala: Payeras, Rigoberta, and Beyond (1991) / Marc Zimmerman 101
- No Secrets (1995) / Doris Sommer 130
- Part II
- What's Wrong with Representation? Testimonio and Democratic Culture (1995) / Santiago Colas 161
- On Literary and Cultural Import-Substitution in the Third World: The Case of the Testimonio (1992/93) / Fredric Jameson 172
- The Aura of Testimonio (1995) / Alberto Moreiras 192
- The Fantasies of Cultural Exchange in Latin American Subaltern Studies (1995) / Gareth Williams 225
- Beyond Testimonial Discourse: New Popular Trends in Bolivia (1995) / Javier Sanjines C 254
- The Real Thing (1995) / John Beverley 266
- Bibliography 287
- Index 305
- Contributors 315
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- Georg M. Gugelberger
- John Beverley
- George Yúdice
- Margaret Randall
- Barbara Harlow
- Marc Zimmerman
- Doris Sommer
- Santiago Colás
- Fredric Jameson
- Alberto Moreiras
- Gareth Williams
- Javier Sanjines C.
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“Gugelberger has brought together the most important critical essays on the testimonio, from its early reception among ‘Latin Americanists’ in the United States and elsewhere to the present. . . . A significant contribution to the discipline of literature. . . .”—Christopher Wise, College Literature
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“Gugelberger has brought together the most important critical essays on the testimonio, from its early reception among ‘Latin Americanists’ in the United States and elsewhere to the present. . . . A significant contribution to the discipline of literature. . . .”—Christopher Wise, College Literature
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Description
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America’s post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a genuine form of resistance literature, testimonio has since undergone a significant change in its critical reception. The essays in The Real Thing analyze the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness.
Although the literature of testimony arose on the margins of institutional power and its ends were in large part political change, the canonization of testimonio by the academic Left has moved it from margin to center, ironically bringing about the institutionalization of its transgressive and counter-hegemonic qualities. Discussing Latin American works ranging from Salvadorian writer Roque Dalton’s Miguel Marmol to I . . . Rigoberta Menchu, a work that earned its author a Nobel Prize, this collection explores how critical writing about testimonio has turned into discourse about the institution of academia, the canon, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of Latin American studies generally.
The Real Thing provides a view of a particularly revealing moment in contemporary literary history and a perspective on the place of the intellectual within the academic institution. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and comparative literature.Contributors. John Beverley, Santiago Colás, Georg M. Gugelberger, Barbara Harlow, Fredric Jameson, Alberto Moreiras, Margaret Randall, Javier Sanjines, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Doris Sommer, Gareth Williams, George Yúdice, Marc Zimmerman
About The Author(s)
Georg M. Gugelberger is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside and Director of the University of California’s Education Abroad Program at U.N.A.M. in Mexico City.