THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTING THE SELF IN THE TESTIMONIAL WRITINGS PLAY A VERY SIGNIFICANT YET AMBIGUOUS ROLE.IN THE TESTIMONIALS
OF LATIN AMERICAN WOMENS THIS ROLE CREATED A HUGE CONTROVERSY.ACTUALLY THE PRESENTATION AND THE CONCEPT OF THE SELF AND OTHER IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE EARLIER NOTION OF ''OTHER'' AS ''ORIENT'' WHICH WAS CONCEPTUALIZED BY EUROPE.FOR THE PRE-WRITTEN CULTURES ONE LIKE THAT OF THE MAYANS OF LATIN AMERICA THIS NOTION OF SELF AND OTHER IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE EUROPEAN NOTION.THUS FOR THESE TYPE OF CULTURES THE IDENTITY IS SHAPED DIFFERENTLY FROM THE ''WHITE'' WORLD.AS THE TESTIMONALISTA OFTEN CLAIMS THAT SHE IS NOT TELLING HER OWN STORY BUT OF HER COMMUNITY IN THE SAME WAY THE PREWRITTEN CULTURES OFTEN PROVIDE US WITH AN ALTERNATIVE WHICH MIGHT SHOW THE DOORSTEPS OF A CULTURE OF TOLERANCE :TOWORDS A BETTER WORLD.THESE CULTURES UNDER DISCUSSION CONCEPTUALIZE THE IDENTITY OF SELF AS AN AMALGAMATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE,ONE AND THE MANY. THIS IS THE STARTING POINT OF THE VOYAGE OF PLURALISM.AND THIS PLURALISM IN THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY CREATION ACTUALLY DISMANTLES AND CHALLENGES THE POPULAR NOTION OF ISOLATED AND ALIENATED SELF:THE MODERN SELF. Write your abstract here.