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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriela Polit DueñasPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 9780822945833ISBN 10: 0822945835 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 17 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsPolit-Duena's path-breaking study gives us a unique insight into the testimonies, fieldwork practices and subjectivity of women journalists who have dared to oppose silence and complicity, crime and impunity, social amnesia and indifference, and who are necessarily performing an essential communicative and political task in Latin America today. - Ignacio Corona, Ohio State University Unwanted Witnesses is a brilliantly conceived and executed hybrid of journalism, literary criticism, and ethnography that brings us clear-eyed dispatches from the murky frontiers of both journalism and fiction. Written with the urgency and emotion of front-line reportage, Polit's book mobilizes cutting-edge theory and scholarship to give its readers an almost-visceral understanding of the realities-and all too frequently, the perils-of being a practicing journalist in twenty-first century Latin America. - Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Yale University Unwanted Witnesses is a brilliantly conceived and executed hybrid of journalism, literary criticism, and ethnography that brings us clear-eyed dispatches from the murky frontiers of both journalism and fiction. Written with the urgency and emotion of front-line reportage, Polit's book mobilizes cutting-edge theory and scholarship to give its readers an almost-visceral understanding of the realities--and all too frequently, the perils--of being a practicing journalist in twenty-first century Latin America. --An bal Gonz lez-P rez, Yale University Polit-Due a's path-breaking study gives us a unique insight into the testimonies, fieldwork practices and subjectivity of women journalists who have dared to oppose silence and complicity, crime and impunity, social amnesia and indifference, and who are necessarily performing an essential communicative and political task in Latin America today. --Ignacio Corona--Ohio State University Author InformationGabriela Polit Dueñas is associate professor of contemporary Latin American culture and literature in the Department Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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