Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America (eBook)

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.

1. Introduction: Exposing ParaguayFederico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino VieraPart One: Writing the Limits of Authoritarian Paraguay2. War and Dismemberment: The Paraguayan War According to León de Palleja’s Diario (1866)Javier Uriarte3. Poetry and Revisionism. Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar ParaguayAlejandro Quin4. Writing the State: The Re-Distribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the “Legislator” in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa BastosJohn KraniauskasPart Two: Preaching Popular Art in Paraguay5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the UniversalTicio Escobar6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino. Painting and the Making of a Democratic ParaguayHoracio Legrás7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary ParaguaySebastián Díaz-Duhalde8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview)Adriana Johnson & Horacio LegrásPart Three: Flashes of Memory in Paraguay: the Legacies of Stronism9. Beyond Coercion: Social Legitimation and Conservative Modernization in the Stroessner Regime (1954-1989)Lorena Soler10. 108/Cuchillo de palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer CountermemoryEva Karene Romero11. De-parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012)Federico PousPart Four: Tracing la realidad que delira12. Paraguayan CounterlivesAdriana Johnson13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia’s El guajhúGabriel Horowitz14. Rafael Barrett’s Haunted LetterMarcelino Viera