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6 de mayo, 2010
Testimonio, memoria, autobiografa en el contexto posmoderno.
Do I not know that, in the field of the subject, there is no referent? (56). Roland
Barthes par Roland Barthes
There is no writing which does not devise some means of protection, to protect against
itself, against the writing by which the 'subject' is himself threatened as he lets himself be
written: as he exposes himself.
Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.
testimonio:
a novel or novella-length narrative, told in the first person by a narrator who is the actual
protagonist or witness of the events she or he recounts. The unit of narration is usually a
life or significant life episode (e.g. the experience of being a prisoner). Since in many
cases the narrator is someone who is either functionally illiterate or, if literate, not a
professional writer or intellectual, the production of the testimonio generally involves the
recording and/or transcription and editing of an oral account by an interlocutor who is a
journalists, writer, or social activist. The word suggests the act of testifying or bearing
witness in a legal or religious sense. (Beverly and Zimmerman 173)
Beverly and Zimmerman. Literature & Politics in the Central American Revolutions.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
V. Algunos aspectos del testimonio que pueden ser tiles en el anlisis de otros discursos
(auto)biogrficos
Cmo se desarrollan..
el rol del editor?
los personajes en el testimonio?
el punto de vista?
la manipulacin del tiempo?
la divisin/organizacin temtica?
las imgenes visuales?
el rol del narrador?
el juego entre "realidad" y "ficcin"?
El estatus del testigo :
la objetividad y/vs. la subjetividad
la voz humana /vs. la mirada de una cmara
el rol de la memoria
el rol del olvido
el rol del oyente/lector para el narrador
la autobiografa/autodefensa
la intervencin del editor/compilador
Modos de referencia histrica y de autenticidad/autoridad:
documentos histricos
recreacin de eventos
interpolacin de personajes histricos
historia colectiva
mitos
testimonio personal
Temas:
la poltica
la identidad
el trauma y el sufrimiento
temas antropolgicos (familia, costumbres, religiones,
etc.)
el conflicto social
un llamado a que los lectores tomen accin