Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio

by Kimberly A. Nance

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082651524X
• ISBN13: 9780826515247
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"