Description: Forms of Dictatorship : Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel, Hardcover by Vargas, Jennifer Harford, ISBN 0190642858, ISBN-13 9780190642853, Brand New, Free shipping in the US " An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. Th illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a "Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary" that positions authoritarianism on a continuum of domination alongside imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, and border militarization. Focusing on novels by writers such as Junot Dâiaz, Hâector Tobar, Cristina Garcâia, Salvador Plascencia, and Francisco Goldman, th reveals how Latina/o dictatorship novels foreground more ubiquitous modes of oppression to indict Latin American dictatorships, . imperialism, and structural discrimination in the ., as well as repressive hierarchies of power in general. Harford Vargas simultaneously utilizes formalist analysis to investigate how Latina/o writers mobilize the genre of the novel and formal techniques such as footnotes, focalization, emplotment, and metafiction to depict dictatorial structures and relations. In building on narrative theories of character, plot, temporality, and perspective, Harford Vargas explores how the Latina/o dictatorship novel stages power dynamics. Forms of Dictatorship thus queries the relationship between different forms of power and the power of narrative form -- that is, between various instantiations of repressive power structures and the ways in which different narrative structures can reproduce and resist repressive power. "--
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Book Title: Forms of Dictatorship : Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Forms of Dictatorship : Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/O Novel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General, American / General, American / Hispanic American
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.9 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Jennifer Harford Vargas
Item Length: 6.4 in
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
