Transnational Testimonios
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The activist storytelling practice of testimonio, long associated with Latin American struggles for justice, forges coalitions across social differences for the purpose of social change. Beyond Central and South America, Patricia DeRochery examines testimonios from a wide range of geopolitical sites, including Argentina, Egypt, Haiti, India, Jamaica, and Trinidad, as well as the United States, and suggests that feminist testimonios offer a model for cross-border feminist alliance building. Transnational Testimonios focuses on the questions of translation, knowledge, and power that characterize the creation and reception of these life writings. DeRocher demonstrates how these stories can mobilize social activism and intervene in epistemological impasses between the Global North and South, offering vital tools for reimagining transnational feminist politics.
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Patricia DeRocher is assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. An "I" That Is "We": Revisiting the Epistemic Potential of Collective Truth Telling
- Part I: Telling Stories, Writing Praxis: Decolonizing Knowledge Production
- 1. Situating Testimonio: A Spirit of Resistance in Textual Form
- 2. Feminism, Epistemology, and Experience
- 3. Constructing Feminist Transnational Bridges through Polyvocal Praxis
- Part II: Transnational Translations
- 4. Activist "Co/Labor/Actions": Polyvocality, Pedagogy, and Praxis
- 5. Resisting Representational Stasis: Dialogic Collaborations in Flux
- Part III: Testifying to the Politics of the Imagined
- 6. "Sometimes My Geographies Get Jumbled": The Temporal and Spatial Disruptions of Living Memory
- 7. Cultivating Community through Creative Communication
- Part IV: Storytelling the Archive
- 8. Retransmissions: Reaching across Languages, Genres, and Readerships with Danticat's Multilingual "Fake-lore
- 9. Diasporic Consciousness and Realism in Behind the Mountains and Brother, I'm Dying
- Postscript. Countering Restriction with Expansion: Cultivating Kaleidoscopic Counterpublics
- Notes
- References
- Index
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