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Title Authoritarianism, cultural history, and political resistance in Latin America : exposing Paraguay / Federico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino Viera, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Series Memory politics and transitional justice
Memory politics and transitional justice.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Exposing Paraguay / Marcelino Viera -- pt. I Writing the Limits of Authoritarian Paraguay -- 2. Disintegrating Bodies: The Undoing of the Discourse of War in Palleja's Diario (1865 -- 66) / Javier Uriarte -- 3. Poetry and Revisionism: Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay / Alejandro Quin -- 4. Writing the State: The Redistribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the "Legislator" in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos / John Kraniauskas -- pt. II Preaching Popular Art in Paraguay -- 5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the Universal / Ticio Escobar -- 6. Inheritances of Carlos Coiombino: Painting and the Making of a Democratic Paraguay / Horacio Legras -- 7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary Paraguay / Sebastian J. Diaz-Duhalde -- 8. Wings of Carlos Coiombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (an Interview) / Horacio Legras -- pt. III 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 Ae Palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer Countermemory / Eva Karene Romero -- 11. De-Parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012) / Federico Pous -- pt. IV Tracing la realidad que delira -- 12. Paraguayan Counterlives / Adriana Johnson -- 13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia's El Guajhu / Gabriel Horowitz -- 14. Rafael Barrett's Haunted Letter / Marcelino Viera
Summary This text 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
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Subject Government, Resistance to -- Paraguay -- History -- 20th century
Comparative politics.
International relations.
Cultural studies.
Films, cinema.
Literature: history & criticism.
Politics & government.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Civilization
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
SUBJECT Paraguay -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001419
Paraguay -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Paraguay
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Pous, Frico, editor
Quin, Alejandro, editor
Viera, Marcelino, editor.
ISBN 9783319535449
3319535447
3319535439
9783319535432