This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and visual art. By looking at the similarities and differences of dictatorships represented in the diverse landscapes of Latin America and Spain, the authors hope to provide a more panoramic view of the dictatorship that moves beyond historiographical accounts of oppression and engages actively in a more broad dialectics of resistance and a politics of memory.
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Exceeding the normal scope of comparative and contrastive work, this volume contains essays which showcase the role of culture as a source of catharsis for traumatized writers, and an enabler of post-conflict resolution.... Overall, this is a coherent and admirably balanced set of essays that exemplifies the productiveness of the transnational and transatlantic approach, which enriches not only scholarly understanding of the convergences between cultures dealing with dictatorship and its aftermath, but also of writers multifarious difficulties and successes in articulating their dissent in highly repressive societies, and surprisingly, as the case of Reinaldo Arenas demonstrates, in democracies. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Feminine Voices of Resistance against Dictatorships: Prison Memories from
Spain and Argentina, Ana Corbalán
2 Nostalgia, Memory and Politics in Chilean Documentaries of Return, Antonio
Traverso
3 National History and Resistance in Ricardo Piglias Respiración artificial
and Juan Goytisolos Reivindicación del Conde don Julián, Julia
Riordan-Goncalves
4 Counter-discourse and Exile in the Poetry of Rafael Alberti and Mario
Benedetti, Carmen Faccini
5 On Food, Hunger and Parasites: Female Strategies against Censorship in Nada
and La plaça del diamant, Irene Gómez-Castellano
6 Reimagining Gendered Identities in Laforet's Nada and Díazs Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao, Patricia Lapolla Swier
7 Queering the Cuban Exile: Reinaldo Arenass Memoirs as a Sexual Outlaw,
Rafael Ocasio
8 The World within the Island: The International Projection of Cuban Artists
Books and Prints: 1985-2009, Ana León-Távora
9 Puppet Theater: Staging Social Inequality during the Porfiriato, Yolanda
Jurado Rojas
10 Wide-eyed Boys and Star Kids: Children and Violence in Voces inocentes
(2004) and La lengua de las mariposas (1999), Niamh Thornton
11 Cosmovisiones and (in)appropriate/d Others: A Critical Reading of Santiago
Roncagliolo's Noir Novel, Abril rojo, Vek Lewis
12 On the Annals of a History of Silence Fragments of 32 from 1932, Rafael
Lara-Martínez and Rick McCallister
About the Contributors
Index
Patricia L. Swier teaches Wake Forest University. Julia Riordan-Goncalves is assistant professor of Spanish and the Program Director of the Spanish and International Business Program at Monmouth University.
