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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colloquy

COLLOQUY
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It's important for North Americans to realize, with John Beverley, that the Latin American tradition of the testimonial has never been bound by the strict rules of veracity that we take for granted in autobiography. Since colonial times, testimonies have rather consistently embroidered the strict facts of the case in order to elicit sympathy from the audience.

-- John A. Peeler, Prof. of Pol. Sci., Bucknell U. (posted 1/13, 3:10 p.m., E.S.T.)
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