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

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Book
Author/Creator:
Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa.
Contributor:
Taylor & Francis eBooks.
Series:
Routledge auto/biography studies
Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Autobiography--Women authors.
Autobiography.
Literature and society--America--History.
Literature and society.
Authoritarianism in literature.
Dictators--Biography.
Dictators.
History.
America.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
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Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2021.
System Details:
text file
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 Expos
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
Notes:
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Print version ORTIZ-VILARELLE, LISA. AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION.
ISBN:
9781000029413
1000029417
9781000029512
1000029514
9781000029451
100002945X
9781003018711
1003018718
Publisher Number:
40030324352
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