Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives

Swier, Patricia; Riordan-Goncalves, Julia; Corbalán , Ana [Contributor]; Faccini, Carmen [Contributor]; Gómez Castellano, Irene [Contributor]; Rojas, Yolanda Jurado [Contributor]; Lewis, Vek [Contributor]; Lara-Martínez, Rafael [Contributor]; McCallister, Rick [Contributor]; Leon-Tavora, Ana [Contributor]; Traverso, Antonio [Contributor]; Thornton, Niamh [Contributor]; Ocasio, Rafael [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1611475899 / ISBN 13: 9781611475890

Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013

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Signed and inscribed by one of the editors, Julia Riordan-Goncalves, to previous owners. Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. Hardbound. Pages unmarked, modest wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611475899
• ISBN 13: 9781611475890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 24 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Editor

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Antonio Traverso studied philosophy in Chile in the 1980s and completed a PhD on the philosophy of vision at Murdoch University, Australia, in 2003. He is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Curtin University, Australia, and his publications include: (as editor) Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South (2016) and (as co-editor) El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (2011).

Niamh Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Ulster, UK. She has published a monograph, as well as two co-edited books, and several chapters and journal articles on film, literature and cyberculture.