Editing Testimony (section)

==Literature==
[[File:Bataan Death March Testimonials.jpg|thumb|[[Bataan Death March|Bataan Death March Testimonials]]]]
Some published [[oral history|oral]] or written [[autobiography|autobiographical]] [[narrative]]s are considered "testimonial [[literature]]" particularly when they present [[evidence (law)|evidence]] or [[first-person narrative|first person]] accounts of [[human rights]] abuses, [[violence]] and [[war]], and living under conditions of social [[oppression]]. This usage of the term comes originally from [[Latin America]] and the Spanish term ''"testimonio"'' when it emerged from human rights [[tribunal]]s, [[truth commissions]], and other [[international human rights instruments]] in countries such as [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]]. One of the most famous, though controversial, of these works to be translated into English is ''[[I, Rigoberta Menchú]]''. The autobiographies of [[Frederick Douglass]] can be considered among the earliest significant English-language works in this [[genre]]. The biographies of marginalized women such as [[Jesusita Aragón|Jesusita Aragon]] and [[Maria Elena Lucas]], made from recordings and transcriptions by oral historian [[Fran Leeper Buss]], are more recent examples.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books and Works By Author Fran Leeper Buss |url=https://www.franleeperbuss.com/authored-books-and-works |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Franleeperbuss |language=en}}</ref>