Elzbieta Sklodowska

La obsolescencia no-programada: una circunnavegación alrededor del testimonio latinoamericano y sus avatares críticos

Resumen: Este articulo ofrece un panorama de las diversas formas narrativas que suelen agruparse bajo el rubro de testimonio latinoamericano. Una vez esbozadas las principales corrientes en los debates criticos generados por el testimonio, este articulo concluye con la sugerencia de que las futuras investigaciones han de enfocarse en la reevaluacion de los marcos metodologicos a la luz del contexto actual marcado por la globalizacion, digitalizacion y el vertiginoso cambio de las nociones de lo real y lo virtual. Palabras clave: testimonio latinoamericano, critica del testimonio. Abstract: This article offers an overview of the myriad narrative forms grouped under the label of Latin American testimonial discourse (testimonio). After outlining the main currents in the critical debates generated by testimonio, this article also offers some suggestions for further research by calling for an in-depth re-evaluation of existing methodological frameworks within the context of globalization, digitalization, and rapidly changing notions of the virtual and the real. Key words: Latin American testimonio, testimonio criticism.

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writers task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.