El testimonio : género fronterizo

Abstract

The present text intends to make an approach to the production of testimonial works, that in Latin America was given from 1968, in order to make known the conditions of exploitation, marginalization, impoverishment, but also resistance, of Latin American peoples . Thus, the dissemination of testimonies from different sociopolitical actors was becoming a strategy to legitimize and spread the motivations of the liberationist struggle, including the army, which was reborn throughout the continent. However, the large number of texts of the existing testimonial genre have been studied very little from Latin America, and their sociopolitical implications and their contribution to the general theory of social movements are not known.