Format:
1 online resource (247 pages)
ISBN:
9781000029413
Series Statement:
Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth-Century Latin American Dictatorships -- 1 I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias: Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women's Memoir -- Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom -- Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aída Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir -- The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo's Memoir Exposé -- Memoir as "Casa-Museo": Dédé Mirabal's Ritual Memorial and the Transmission of Memory -- Patremoir as Post-Dictatorial Counter-Tour: Angelita Trujillo's Publicly Private Nostalgia -- ¿Seguiré a Caballo?: Trujillo in the Twenty-first Century Imagination -- 2 Dueña y Señora de Su Canto: Autobiographical Depictions of the New Nicaraguan Woman -- Poetic Interiorismo and "The Six": Why This is Not Testimonio -- Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Womanhood, Embodiment, and the New Nicaraguan Woman -- The Mirror Poems: Refractory and Reciprocal Recognition -- 3 "Distinguished Ladies" and the Doctrine of Chilean Womanhood: The "Anti-Manuals" of Diamela Eltit, Isabel Allende, and Marjorie Agosín -- The Distinguished Woman -- Auto-Surveillance and Auto-Performance in Diamela Eltit's E. Luminata -- "Only a Woman Could Imagine a Story Like This": Desire and Patriotism in Isabel Allende's Aphrodite and My Invented Country -- Marjorie Agosín's Filial Narrative: Producing Genres of Liberation in the Next Generation -- Matremoir: A Cross and a Star -- Patremoir: Always from Somewhere Else -- 4 Exile Memory and the Paradigmatic: Before-and-After in Post-1959 Cuban Women's Life Writing -- Overwriting Fidel: Zoe Valdés on How a Leftist Dictator Is Still a Dictator -- Revisionary Exile Memory.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367893477
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367893477
Language:
English
