AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator.

AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator.

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"Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic gove...

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Main Author: Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.
Series:Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Subjects:
Autobiography > Women authors.
Literature and society > America > History.
Authoritarianism in literature.
Dictators > Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Online Access:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003018711
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth-Century Latin American Dictatorships
  • 1 I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias: Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women's Memoir
  • Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom
  • Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aída Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir
  • The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo's Memoir Exposé
  • Memoir as "Casa-Museo": Dédé Mirabal's Ritual Memorial and the Transmission of Memory
  • Patremoir as Post-Dictatorial Counter-Tour: Angelita Trujillo's Publicly Private Nostalgia
  • ¿Seguiré a Caballo?: Trujillo in the Twenty-first Century Imagination
  • 2 Dueña y Señora de Su Canto: Autobiographical Depictions of the New Nicaraguan Woman
  • Poetic Interiorismo and "The Six": Why This is Not Testimonio
  • Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Womanhood, Embodiment, and the New Nicaraguan Woman
  • The Mirror Poems: Refractory and Reciprocal Recognition
  • 3 "Distinguished Ladies" and the Doctrine of Chilean Womanhood: The "Anti-Manuals" of Diamela Eltit, Isabel Allende, and Marjorie Agosín
  • The Distinguished Woman
  • Auto-Surveillance and Auto-Performance in Diamela Eltit's E. Luminata
  • "Only a Woman Could Imagine a Story Like This": Desire and Patriotism in Isabel Allende's Aphrodite and My Invented Country
  • Marjorie Agosín's Filial Narrative: Producing Genres of Liberation in the Next Generation
  • Matremoir: A Cross and a Star
  • Patremoir: Always from Somewhere Else
  • 4 Exile Memory and the Paradigmatic: Before-and-After in Post-1959 Cuban Women's Life Writing
  • Overwriting Fidel: Zoe Valdés on How a Leftist Dictator Is Still a Dictator
  • Revisionary Exile Memory
  • Salida Definitiva/Definitive Departure: Ruth Behar's Autoethnographic Memory and the Impossibility of Return
  • Reconciling the Irreconcilable
  • 5 "There Is No Need for Us to Speak of Eva Perón": Evita's Caudillagrafia
  • Caudillagrafia: Autobiography as Perónist Manifesto
  • Doctrinary Overwriting: How to Hide a Dictator
  • Shadow and Light
  • The Condor and the Sparrow
  • El Simulacro: Not Even the Peróns Were the Peróns
  • Old Eva/New Evita
  • The "Benefactress"
  • La Presidenta/La Resentida
  • The Heart and the Womb of Argentina
  • Conclusion: Self-Less Self-Representation
  • Conclusion: Common Denominators: Impossible Autobiographies
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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