Resumo

RAMIREZ DE RAMIREZ, Fanny  e  PEREZ SISTO, Edith. Testimonio de la subalteridad social en Venezuela. Latinoamérica [online]. 2007, n.45, pp.59-78. ISSN 2448-6914.

The purpose of this study is to show how the oral testimony can be understood as a literary genre, differentiated and differentiator between the novel and the texts arising from the social science. In the same manner, the testimony appears as an alternative history which makes possible for the silenced and excluded subjects from the “Official History”, to access the literary space, and came out from the marginalization and to generate a “counterculture” discourse, which main goal is to asses the “counter-story”, on one hand and on the political and social “subalterity”, on the other in search of replevying. The testimony pretend to give the account of the facts occurred during the period in which they happened. The “oral testimony” transforms itself into a catharsis or personal liberation while evidentiate the extreme situations suffered by those who give testimony.

Palavras-chave : Subalterity; Narrative couter-culture; Venezuela.