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Academic Year 2021-22
Mar 28, 2024
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SP 370 - Genre Studies:
This course examines testimonio as a unique genre that developed in Latin America and North America in the wake of social and political struggles of marginalized communities starting in the 1960s. Testimonio embodies the tension between subaltern voices and hegemonic culture, between genre and disciplinary boundaries, such as autobiography and literature or art and politics. We will explore the ways in which testimonio seeks to communicate and legitimize the urgency of political action in the wake of social and political disasters – military dictatorships, civil wars, forced migration. Throughout the course we will discuss topics such as individual and collective identity formation, authority and mediation, revelation and secrecy, orality and performativity, memory and forgetting.



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