Testimonios

Testimonios


Chicana feminists Saldivar-Hull (2000), Anzaldua (1997), Hurtado (2003) and the Latina Feminist Group (2001) emphasize that Latinas’ testimonios within academia are necessary “to critique those official versions of reality …and the feminist literature we read,…rose out of the same mass phenomenon of truth telling from personal knowledge (Latina Feminist Group, 2001, p. 29).” The Latina Feminist Group (2001) frames the importance of the testimonio in academic writings because

testimonio is often seen as a form of expression that comes out of intense repression or struggle, where the person bearing witness tells the story to someone else, who then transcribes, edits, translates, and publishes the text elsewhere … an effort by the disenfranchised to assert themselves as political subjects … in the process to emphasize particular aspects of their collective identity (p. 13).”