Word: testimonio
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Warren framed the conflict between Menchu and Stoll as a conflict between two genres of writing: the testimonial and the expose. She said the Mayan testimonial, testimonio in Spanish, diverges from strict personal narrative...
...refuses to read the autobiography as an instance of testimonio, with collective veracities," she said. "Facts outside of the immediate scope are ignored...
Warren predicted that Stoll's book would have a greater impact on the American intellectual debate than on the Guatemalan peace process. "I worried about the book," she said of Stoll's work. "If Stoll somehow discredited testimonio, rural people would not be heard...
According to Warren, a recent nine volume report by a truth commission detailing wartime atrocities overwhelmed Stoll's indictment of the testimonio. The controversy will endure as a legendary debate in anthropology and American electoral politics," Warren said...
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