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Translating the Revolution: Otherness in Cuban Testimonial Literature [PDF]
Meta, 2013 Drawing on existing theories in the field, this paper seeks to explore the issues that surround the translation of Cuban testimonial texts, emphasizing the inevitable portrayal of the Self as an Other. The notion of translation as an articulation of otherness has become a focus of interest in contemporary translation studies.
Raquel de Pedro Ricoy +1 more
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Speaking Trauma and History: The Collective Voice of Testimonial Literature [PDF]
, 2020 The Cold War encompassed not only the division of Europe and the conflict between China and the West, but also proxy-conflicts fought between Central and Southern America and the African continent, and impacted too on lives in the non-aligned world. While traditional Western literary memoirs of the period tend to speaks to the private of an ego-centric
Jensen, Meg
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Testimonial Smothering and Pornography [PDF]
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2018 This paper defends the claim that there are two previously underexplored ways in which pornography silences women. These ways that pornography silences are (1) the smothering of refusal and (2) the smothering of sexual assault reports, and they can be ...
Rosa Vince
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Testimonial Ecology in Gioconda Belli’s El país de las mujeres
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2015 This article provides an analysis of the intersection between testimonial literature, ecological commentary, and feminist ideology as presented in Gioconda Belli’s 2010 novel El país de las mujeres.
Joel Postema
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El delincuente en la literatura testimonial venezolana
Amerika, 2013 This article discusses how testimonial literature written by criminals in 1970s Venezuela, build alternative models of citizenship that, epistemically, break ethical standards, and the anthropological, pedagogical and sociological legacy of modernity ...
Argenis Monroy Hernández
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War in Colombia testimonial literature: between memory, culture, violence and literature [PDF]
Universitas Humanística, 2011 Colombia may be characterized as a society ruled over by “a routinization of war and oblivion”. When memories about violent events succeed in articulate themselves and transcend the private space, they are not necessarily incorporated to national memory ...
Jorge Eduardo Suárez Gómez
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Swedish Journal of Romanian StudiesSynthesizing the way in which the Romanian Holocaust has been represented in testimonial literature and films, this article deals with notions such as Holocaust trivialization and denial, as well as with “mastering the Romanian past” of the interwar ...
Arleen Ionescu, Dumitru Tucan
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Swedish Journal of Romanian StudiesSynthesizing the way in which the Romanian Holocaust has been represented in testimonial literature and films, this article deals with notions such as Holocaust trivialization and denial, as well as with “mastering the Romanian past” of the interwar ...
Arleen Ionescu, Dumitru Tucan
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Theorizing Intergenerational Trauma in Tazmamart Testimonial Literature and Docu-testimonies
, 2018 Drawing on testimonial writings by the wives of Tazmamart prisoners and two documentary films (docu-testimonies) about this notorious disappearance camp, I argue that Tazmamart-induced traumas are intergenerational. Approached as a continuum, Tazmamart-induced traumas reveal the intergenerational transference of trauma from mothers to children in the ...
El Guabli, Brahim
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Amerika, 2016 Carlos Liscano’s approach to his testimonial experience with torture and political prison –I refer fundamentally to El furgón de los locos– inaugurated –in his work– several texts confronted with the aesthetic parameters supported by him before, and ...
Gabriela Sosa San Martín
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