Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America

Exposing Paraguay
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-53543-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 5207 g

Reihe: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender studies, sociology, and political theory. The essays compiled here focus on the different narratives and political processes that shaped a country decentered from, but also deeply connected to, the rest of Latin America. Structured in four thematic sections, the book reflects upon authoritarianism; the tensions between modern, indigenous, and popular artistic expressions; the legacies of the Stroessner Regime, political resistance, and the struggle for collective memory; as well as the literary framing of historical trauma, particularly in connection with the Roabastian notion of la realidad que delira [delirious reality].

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pous, Federico

Quin, Alejandro

Viera, Marcelino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Exposing Paraguay.- 2. War and Dismemberment: The Paraguayan War According to León de Palleja’s Diario (1866).- 3. Poetry and Revisionism. Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay.- 4. Writing the State: The Re-Distribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the “Legislator” in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos.- 5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the Universal.- 6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino. Painting and the Making of a Democratic Paraguay.- 7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary Paraguay.- 8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview).- 9. Beyond Coercion: Social Legitimation and Conservative Modernization in the Stroessner Regime (1954-1989).- 10. 108/Cuchillo de palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer Countermemory.- 11. De-parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012).- 12. Paraguayan Counterlives.- 13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia’s El guajhú.- 14. Rafael Barrett’s Haunted Letter.

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Pous is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Elon University, USA.

Alejandro Quin teaches modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture at the University of Utah, USA.
Marcelino Viera is Assistant Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, USA.