Speaking of the subaltern: Subjectivities and resistance in the testimonial narratives of workers

• Main Author: Moratilla, Noel Christian A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Working class—Philippines—Social conditions—21st century; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/9143
• Institution: De La Salle University

Postmodernity's obsession with widening the range of texts that constitutes the politics of representation necessitates the location, production, and appropriation of cultural practices that counter 'hegemonic' political and cultural structures. One such practice is the writing of testimonios or testimonial narratives, which first emerged and gained popularity in Latin America, and is now gaining recognition as a pedagogical tool of resistance among subjugated peoples. As a mode of representation aspiring to the conditions of orality and as a genre that transgresses modernist literary aesthetics while concerning itself with the conditions of the disadvantaged and the marginalized, the testimonio may fittingly serve as the voice of otherity.