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Authoring ethnicized subjects : Rigoberta Menchú and the performative production of the subaltern self
Verfasst von:
Arias, Arturo
New York:
2001
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75 - 88 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Arias, Arturo |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The debate over Rigoberta Menchu's "testimonio" has centered on whether or not Menchú told the "truth" regarding details of her personal life. According to her critics, her "lies" discredit her testimony and reduce the moral authority of leftist intellectuals who teach testimonial texts. This focus on verfiable facts ignores the literary value of testimonios" in general and the imprtance of Menchú's testimony in particular in a discursive war tied to cold war politics. this essay explores the probelmatics of truth, the nature of "testimonio" as a genre, and the relation between political solidarity and subaltern narrative. It also examines the function of Menchú's "testimonio" as a discouse on ethnicity and considers the relation among the anthropologist, the subaltern subject, and truth. The conclusion deals with the need to rethink the concept of identity, with the desires and fantasies of subjective transformation, and with the notion of identity politics | |
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