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Voiceless Victims In Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso, Henry James Morello
Voiceless Victims In Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso, Henry James Morello
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Voiceless Victims in Sin tetas no hay paraíso" Henry James Morello discusses Gustavo Bolívar's Sin tetas no hay paraiso. The novel is, in Bolívar's words, his way of bringing attention to the problem of young women in Colombia using prostitution in order to pay for plastic surgery a very specific problem facing the youth of Colombia. However, at what price is the success of the novel? Or, rather, who is compromised as a result of this cultural phenomenon? The author may have intended to write a novel that called attention to the problems facing Colombian …
Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This introductory essay to STTCL 39.2 discusses the importance of testimony as a flexible literary genre that can tell the stories of environmental injustice in the Global South, which is disproportionately affected by environmental violence and less represented in the growing global environmental movement.