Leigh Gilmore, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001) and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994) and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism (1994). She has published articles in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Biography, among others, and in numerous collections. She was Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at Scripps College, professor of English at the Ohio State University, and has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Berkeley.

In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica KincaidConclusion: Testimonial Publics—#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's CitizenNotesBibliographyIndex

Leigh Gilmore, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001) and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994) and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism (1994). She has published articles in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Biography, among others, and in numerous collections. She was Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at Scripps College, professor of English at the Ohio State University, and has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Berkeley.

In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica KincaidConclusion: Testimonial Publics—#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's CitizenNotesBibliographyIndex

Leigh Gilmore, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, is the author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001) and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation (1994) and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism (1994). She has published articles in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Biography, among others, and in numerous collections. She was Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies at Scripps College, professor of English at the Ohio State University, and has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, Berkeley.

In this moving and transformative text, Leigh Gilmore explores the different ways that women's testimonies are made incredible. With patience and care, Gilmore explores how testimonies circulate, how they keep open histories that have yet to be resolved, and how testimonies become tainted because of who as well as what they point to. This insightful book gives testimony a feminist hearing

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tainted Witness in Testimonial Networks1. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Search for an Adequate Witness2. Jurisdictions and Testimonial Networks: Rigoberta Menchú3. Neoliberal Life Narrative: From Testimony to Self-Help4. Witness by Proxy: Girls in Humanitarian Storytelling5. Tainted Witness in Law and Literature: Nafissatou Diallo and Jamaica KincaidConclusion: Testimonial Publics—#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's CitizenNotesBibliographyIndex