Autorías y textos latinoamericanos en el estrado: literatura testimonial y violaciones a los derechos humanos en Jorge Galán y Graciela Bialet

The article analyzes three cases of Latin American authors that were called to testify on trial, due to the publication of their literary works which, from a testimonial perspective, denounced human rights violations. The analysis of Jorge Galán in El Salvador (with the novel Noviembre) and Graciela Bialet in Argentina (with the novel Los sapos de la memoria) help to understand issues such as the limits of fiction when mediated by the testimonial subgenre, or the value of the literary text in the search for objective truth. The review of these cases from an interdisciplinary perspective forces Law and Literature studies to be contextualized in Latin America in order to find specific ways of understanding the legal and literary systems in the region.