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Confessionals, Testimonials: Women's Speech in/and Contexts of Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

K. E. Supriya
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Abstract

Theories of discursive genres provide the philosophical and theoretical framework for the empirical examination of the ways in which immigrant women construct their cultural identities in contexts of violence. The claim of the paper is that the analytical genres of confessional and testimonial discourse enable the examination of the particular ways by which immigrant women both reproduce and resist power and violence.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996 , pp. 92 - 106
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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