중미 난민의 재현과 윤리적 책임: 증언 장르의 새로운 고찰
Representation of Central American Refugees and Ethical Responsibility
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A New Approach to the Testimonial Genre: The humanitarian crisis caused by the surge of Central American refugees in the U.S.A has emerged as a new subject of the testimonial genre in literature and film. Regarding the representation of refugees from Central America, especially unaccompanied refugee children, the article discusses the reception of readers or critics regarding the difference between veracity and fictionality, the political role of testimonio, and the effects of narrative experiment and rhetorical technique. The literary characteristics of fantasy, autobiographical poetry, melodrama, and literary journalism in connection with the effects of testimony are analyzed based on the works of Valeria Luiselli, Javier Zamora, Sonia Nazario, and Óscar Martínez. Regarding how to represent the migrant journey of Central American refugees, this paper attempts to adopt a new approach to what used to be assessed as unique characteristics of the testimonial genre by examining the authors’ identification with migrants through (semi) real experience or imagined empathy. Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the authors clearly utter their ethical responsibility to literary activism through fictional and aesthetical configuration. This article discusses how they are expanding or redefining this genre as new deployment of narrative techniques and representation to make the suffering of migrants more visible and tangible.
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A New Approach to the Testimonial Genre: The humanitarian crisis caused by the surge of Central American refugees in the U.S.A has emerged as a new subject of the testimonial genre in literature and film. Regarding the representation of refugees from Central America, especially unaccompanied refugee children, the article discusses the reception of readers or critics regarding the difference between veracity and fictionality, the political role of testimonio, and the effects of narrative experiment and rhetorical technique. The literary characteristics of fantasy, autobiographical poetry, melodrama, and literary journalism in connection with the effects of testimony are analyzed based on the works of Valeria Luiselli, Javier Zamora, Sonia Nazario, and Óscar Martínez. Regarding how to represent the migrant journey of Central American refugees, this paper attempts to adopt a new approach to what used to be assessed as unique characteristics of the testimonial genre by examining the authors’ identification with migrants through (semi) real experience or imagined empathy. Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis, the authors clearly utter their ethical responsibility to literary activism through fictional and aesthetical configuration. This article discusses how they are expanding or redefining this genre as new deployment of narrative techniques and representation to make the suffering of migrants more visible and tangible.
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