Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931 (review)
strategies of resistance, ranging in style from the journalistic testimonies of Elena Poniatowska to the ironic portrayal of an U.S. tourist visiting Antigua by Jamaica Kincaid. In this section a profound current of sorrow intertwines with the critical eye. Thus, while Magorie Agosin pays homage to those whose lives have been lost unnecessarily, Alicia Partnoy proposes a discourse of solidarity that defies the academy's preoccupation with the truth when speaking of testimonio.