Forms of Dictatorship - Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel

Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Dictating Narrative Power


• Chapter 2: The Borderlands of Authoritarianism


• Chapter 3: The Floating Dictatorship


• Chapter 4: Plotting Justice


• Chapter 5: The Fall of the Patriarchs


• Coda


• Works Cited

About the author

Jennifer Harford Vargas is an Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.

Summary

Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

Additional text

Elegantly written, with a series of striking analyses, Forms of Dictatorship draws together Latin American critical history of the dictatorship novel and US Latino/a novels about authoritarian regimes. Vargas' attention to formal innovation, combined with her breadth of knowledge of the literature of the Américas, makes Forms of Dictatorship a crucial contribution to the study of contemporary literature.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Harford Vargas, Jennifer (Assistant Professor of E Harford Vargas, Harford Vargas Jennifer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2019
• EAN: 9780190079673
• ISBN: 978-0-19-007967-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / Hispanic & Latino