Escritura, comunidad y ?efecto documental? en Prisión en Chile, de Alejandro Witker / Writing, Community and Documentary effect in 'Prison in Chile', by Alejandro Witker.

Alejandro Witker?s Prison in Chile was one of the most important testimonies in the early years of Chilean dictatorship. Their paratexts identified the act of bearing witness as a new kind of struggle in substitution of the traditional ways of fighting. Witker?s text developed some original textual strategies for representing the idea of collective experience and also for creating a ?documentary effect?. Keywords: Testimony, concentration camps, community, ?documentary effect?