Woman As Witness : Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women

Introduction: The Case for and Case History of Women's Testimonial Literature in Latin America 1(21) Linda S. Maier Part 1: Latin American Women's Testimonial Literature: Critical Issues and Challenges The Crying Game: Rigoberta Menchu and the Responsibilities of Testimonio Criticism 21(26) Marilyn May Lombardi Essential Subversions: Reading Theory with Latin American Women's Testimonial Discourse 47(16) Joanna R. Bartow Are Cultural Studies ``Against Literature''? Reading Testimonial and Film in the Latin American Canon 63(18) Sophia A. McClennen Testimonio: Present Predicaments and Future Forays 81(18) Isabel Dulfano Part 2: Woman as Witness in Central America Referentiality and Fabulation in Nidia Diaz's Nunca estuve sola 99(14) Donald L. Shaw Oppositional Discourse and the Notion of Feminism in Testimonial Narratives by Nidia Diaz and Ana Guadalupe Martinez 113(12) Vicki Roman-Lagunas Part 3: Woman as Witness in North and South America (Mexico and Argentina) The Aventuras and Infortunios of Agustina Palacio de Libarona on the Argentine Frontier 1840--1841 125(16) Mary G. Berg Victoria Ocampo's Making of Self in Her Autobiografia 141(12) Mimi Y. Yang The Dialectics of Desire and Rejection in Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte, Jesus mio 153(14) Ana Garcia Chichester Hay que sonreir and Cola de lagartija by Luisa Valenzuela: Narrative as Testimonial Breakthrough 167(14) Alyce Cook Part 4: Argentine Women's Testimonial Texts: Toward the Formation of a Canon Introduction 181(2) Mary G. Berg Infortunios de la matrona santiaguena dona Agustina Palacio de Libarona la Heroina del Bracho (1840--42) 183(18) Agustina Palacio De Libarona Excerpt from A Single, Numberless Death 201(16) Nora Strejilevich Cristina De La Torre List of Contributors 217