Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published online 1991-07
Re-membering the Dead: Latin American Women's "Testimonial" Discourse by Nancy Saporta Sternbach La memoria guardará lo que valga la pena. La memoria sabe de mi más que yo;y ella no pierde lo que merece ser guardado (Galeano,1983: 10). To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again ... [it restores] the breath of life of him who has vanished (Egyptian tomb inscription,cited in Noblecourt and Kenett 1963: 625
Alegría, Claribel1982Flowers from the Volcano. Translated by Carolyn Forché. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
2.
1987Interview on National Public Radio, October.
3.
Alegría, Claribel and Darwin Flakoll1983No me agarran viva: La mujer salvadoreña en lucha . Mexico City: Ediciones Era.
4.
Barnet, Miguel1973The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave, Esteban Montejo . New York: Vintage Books (originally published as Biografía de un cimarron, 1968).
5.
Barrios de Chungara, Domitila with Moema Viezzer1977 "Si me permiten hablar ..." Testimonio de Domitila, una mujer de las minas de Bolivia. Mexico City: Siglo XXI.
6.
Barry, Kathleen1979Female Sexual Slavery. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice Hall.
7.
Bloom, Lynn Z.1977 "Listen! Women speaking," Frontiers2 (Summer): 1-2.
8.
Bonafini, Hebe de1985Historias de vida: Hebe de Bonafini. Edited with a prologue by Matilde Sánchez.Buenos Aires: Fraterna/Del Nuevo Extremo.
9.
Bunster-Burotto, Ximena1986 "Surviving beyond fear: Women and torture in Latin America ," pp. 297-325 in June Nash and Helen Safa (eds.), Women and Change in Latin America. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Harvey.
10.
Cabezas, Omar1982La montaña es algo más que una inmensa estepa verde. Havana : Casa de las Américas.
11.
Carpentier, Alejo1967 "Prólogo," pp. 7-17 in El reino de este mundo. Mexico City: Cía General de Ediciones.
12.
Cervantes, Lorna Dee1981EmplumadaPittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
13.
Chevigny, Bell Gale1986 "Twice-told tales and the meaning of history: Testimonial novels by Miguel Barnet and Norman Mailer." Centennial Review30 (Spring): 181-195.
Daly, Mary1978Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical FeminismBoston: Beacon Press.
16.
Foster, David William1984 "Latin American documentary narrative." PMLA99 (January): 41-55.
17.
Franco, Jean1985 "Killing, priests, nuns, women, children," pp. 414-420 in Marshall Blonsky (ed.), On Signs . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.
18.
Galeano, Eduardo1983Días y noches de amor y de guerra. Managua: Editorial Nueva Nicaragua.
19.
Gluck, Sherna1977 "What's so special about women? Women's oral history ." Frontiers2 (Summer): 3-11.
20.
González-Echeverría, Roberto1980 "Biografía de un cimarrón: And the novel of the Cuban revolution ." Novel: A Forum on Fiction13 (Spring): 249-263.
21.
Jara, René1986 "Prólogo: Testimonio y literatura," pp. 1-6, in René Jara and Hernán Vidal (eds.), Testimonio y literatura. Minneapolis, MN: Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature (3).
22.
Jofre, Manuel1981 "Literatura chilena de testimonio." Casa de las Américas21 (November-December): 150-156.
23.
Kiddle, Mary Ellen1985 "The Novela testimonial in contemporary Mexican literature ." Confluencia1 (Fall): 82-89.
24.
Lewis, Oscar1965La vida. New York: Random House.
25.
McCracken, Ellen1986 "Gender and Revolution: Women's and Men's Testimonial Discourse in Central America,"paper read at the XIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston, Massachusetts, October.
26.
Menchú, Rigoberta1983Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia . Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (ed.), Havana: Casa de las Américas.
27.
1984I Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (ed.). London: Verso.
28.
Meyer, Doris1983"'Feminine' testimony in the works of Teresa de la Parra, Maria Luisa Bombal and Victoria Ocampo," pp. 3-15 in Doris Meyer and Margarite Fernández-Olmos (eds.), Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America: Introductory Essays. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn College Press.
29.
Moya-Raggio, Elena1987 "Three testimonies from Latin America." Michigan Quarterly Review26 (Winter): 272-277.
30.
Muñoz, Willy O.1987"La consciencia de si como arma política en Si me permiten hablar ... Testimonio de Domitila."Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura2 (2): 70-77.
31.
Noblecourt, Christiane Desroches and F.L. Kenett1963 "Tutankhamun's golden trove." National Geographic124 (October): 624-646.
32.
Oxford Latin Dictionary1976Oxford: Clarendon Press.
33.
Partnoy, Alicia1986The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press.
34.
Poniatowska, Elena1969Hasta no verte, Jesús mío. Mexico City : Era.
35.
Prada Oropeza, Renato1986 "De lo testimonial al testimonio: Notas para un deslinde del discurso testimonio," pp. 7-21 in René Jara and Hernán Vidal (eds.), Testimonio y Literatura. Minneapolis, MN: Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature.
36.
Randall, Margaret1980Todas estamos despiertas: Testimonios de la mujer nicaragüense hoy. Mexico City: Siglo XXI. (A translated and abridged English version appeared in 1981 as Sandino's Daughters. Vancouver: New Star Books.)
37.
Rivero, Eliana1984-85 "Testimonios y conversaciones como discurso literario: Cuba y Nicaragua." Literature and Contemporary Revolutionary Culture1: 218-228.
38.
Sklodowska, Elzbieta1982 "La forma testimonial y la novelistica de Miguel Barnet ," Revista/Review Interamericana12 (Fall): 375-384.
39.
Tijerino, Doris1978Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution. Told to Margaret Randall , translated by Elinor Randall. Vancouver: New Star Books.
40.
Timerman, Jacobo1988Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number. Translated by Toby Talbot. New York: Vintage Books.