WITNESSING, TRUTH & TRAUMA: TESTIMONIAL WRITING IN LATIN AMERICA

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Upper-Level

This seminar provides an exploration of testimonial writing, a crucial and controversial Latin American genre that aims at giving voice to those marginalized within society. Looking at testimonials by indigenous militants, poor women, war crime survivors, and insurgents the course explores the meaning of truth and fiction, historical reckoning, and trauma. Taught in Spanish.