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  • 33 - Afterword

  • from Part IV - Women Writers in a One–World Global System: Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Subjectivity
  • Edited by Ileana Rodríguez, Ohio State University, Mónica Szurmuk
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature
    Published online:
    05 November 2015
    Print publication:
    12 November 2015, pp 559-574

  • Summary

    Testimonio has been an inspiring genre for women who need to delve into the innermost echoes of torture and repression. The feelings anchored in their bodies lie at the heart of women concentration camp survivors' experience, and they seek other voices with whom to enter into a dialogue within this framework. They often focus on the gender-specific repression they suffered, such as sexual abuse and the kidnapping of their children, and present their stories in oral/written patterns or in literary form. The writings could be considered autobiographical because they explore the connections between one's memory and the memory of others. Testimonios are multidimensional. What is important is how the imprecise boundaries between memory and history, document and literature are negotiated. In this context, writing becomes a transformation process that goes from personal experience to public account, and this shift tends to conceal the work of writing.