Abstract

ACEDO ALONSO, Noemí. The “Testimonio” genre in Latin America: critical approaches in search of its definition, genealogy and taxonomy. Latinoamérica [online]. 2017, n.64, pp.39-69. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2017.64.56863.

This article reviews the critical approaches that from the eighties have been carried out around “testimonio” Latin American and Latin American literary criticism considered it a new literary genre. This article focuses on definitions literary criticism has proposed for it, the genealogy that inscribes it in the cultural tradition of the continent and a taxonomy that can classify the great variety of this type of discourse. The critical approaches are so different as the types of testimonial writing.

Keywords : “Testimonio”; Genre; Critique; Genealogy; Taxonomy.