Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America: Exposing Paraguay

ISBN-13: 9783319851808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 301 str.

Federico Pous; Alejandro Quin; Marcelino Viera

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Exposing Paraguay

Federico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino Viera

Part One: Writing the Limits of Authoritarian Paraguay

2. War and Dismemberment: The Paraguayan War According to León de Palleja’s Diario (1866)

Javier Uriarte

3. Poetry and Revisionism. Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay

Alejandro Quin

4. Writing the State: The Re-Distribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the “Legislator” in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos

John Kraniauskas

Part Two: Preaching Popular Art in Paraguay

5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the Universal

Ticio Escobar

6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino. Painting and the Making of a Democratic Paraguay

Horacio Legrás

7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary Paraguay

Sebastián Díaz-Duhalde

8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview)

Adriana Johnson & Horacio Legrás

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 Countermemory

Eva Karene Romero

11. De-parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012)

Federico Pous

Part Four: Tracing la realidad que delira

12. Paraguayan Counterlives

Adriana Johnson

13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia’s El guajhú

Gabriel Horowitz

14. Rafael Barrett’s Haunted Letter

Marcelino Viera

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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].