Testimonios, Kurt Herdan, 2018, Testimonio Editorial, Santiago.

A genre brought to the prominence by books such as Biografía de un cimarrón in the 1960s and Me llamo Rigoberta Mechú in the 1980s, 2018’s Testimonios: Kurt Herdan is a fresh example that testimonio is alive and well. It is also an example that the genre is also evolving as it lends voice to the sm...

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Auteur principal: Gardner, Nathanial
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Artelogie 2019
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:A genre brought to the prominence by books such as Biografía de un cimarrón in the 1960s and Me llamo Rigoberta Mechú in the 1980s, 2018’s Testimonios: Kurt Herdan is a fresh example that testimonio is alive and well. It is also an example that the genre is also evolving as it lends voice to the smaller, but no lesser important, voices of history. On this occasion the reader the reader meets Kurt Herdan: a European exile in Chile. Born in 1923, the biographical narrative tells of Herdan’s yo...