Authoritarianism, cultural history, and political resistance in Latin America : exposing Paraguay
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Authoritarianism, cultural history, and political resistance in Latin America : exposing Paraguay
（Memory politics and transitional justice）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
- : hbk
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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].
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Exposing ParaguayFederico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino Viera
Part One: Writing the Limits of Authoritarian Paraguay
2. War and Dismemberment: The Paraguayan War According to Leon de Palleja's Diario (1866)
Javier Uriarte
3. Poetry and Revisionism. Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar ParaguayAlejandro Quin
4. Writing the State: The Re-Distribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the "Legislator" in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa BastosJohn Kraniauskas
Part Two: Preaching Popular Art in Paraguay
5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the UniversalTicio Escobar
6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino. Painting and the Making of a Democratic ParaguayHoracio Legras
7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary ParaguaySebastian Diaz-Duhalde
8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview)
Adriana Johnson & Horacio Legras
Part Three: Flashes of Memory in Paraguay: the Legacies of Stronism
9. Beyond Coercion: Social Legitimation and Conservative Modernization in the Stroessner Regime (1954-1989)Lorena Soler
10. 108/Cuchillo de palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer CountermemoryEva Karene Romero
11. De-parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012)Federico Pous
Part Four: Tracing la realidad que delira12. Paraguayan CounterlivesAdriana Johnson
13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia's El guajhu
Gabriel Horowitz
14. Rafael Barrett's Haunted LetterMarcelino Viera
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