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Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio
Kimberly A. Nance
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Taking up the relationship between ethics and literature, this is a political autobiography of,Kimberly Nance, a Latin American activist, who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change - was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical form of literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH; JPW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
As if in direct response to ""The New Yorker's"" question of ""The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?"", Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the 40th anniversary of the testimonio occurring in 2006, there has never been a better time to reconsider its role in achieving social justice. The advent of the testimonio - loosely, a political autobiography of a Latin American activist who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change - was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical ... Read more
As if in direct response to ""The New Yorker's"" question of ""The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?"", Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the 40th anniversary of the testimonio occurring in 2006, there has never been a better time to reconsider its role in achieving social justice. The advent of the testimonio - loosely, a political autobiography of a Latin American activist who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change - was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515230
SKU
V9780826515230
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About Kimberly A. Nance
Kimberly A. Nance is Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Illinois State University.
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