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AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION : overwriting the dictator.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa.
- 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.
- polychrome
- 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:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version ORTIZ-VILARELLE, LISA. AMERICANAS, AUTOCRACY, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INNOVATION.
- ISBN:
- 9781000029413
- 1000029417
- 9781000029512
- 1000029514
- 9781000029451
- 100002945X
- 9781003018711
- 1003018718
- Publisher Number:
- 40030324352
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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