Forms of Dictatorship(1st Edition) Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (Oxford Studies in American Literary History) by JenniferHarfordVargas Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-064285-3, ISBN: 0-19-064285-8
"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. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary histor ..."
"The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significa ..."
Forms of Dictatorship Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel (Oxford Studies in American Literary History) by JenniferHarfordVargas Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-007967-3, ISBN: 0-19-007967-3
"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. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary histor ..."
"The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significa ..."
"The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists conte ..."
"What precisely Yunior fears becomes clear the next day: he is afraid he will “end
up abnormal, a fucking pato.”58 Yunior's fear is rooted not just in the notion that
having sex with a man defines you as gay, but in the more specific Latin
American discourse on homosexuality that suggests the receiver of homosexual
action is gay, not the giver. To be pasivo, the recipient of sexual penetration or
another penetrative sex act, makes a ..."
"... Zoe Dirse has explored the unique dynamics prompted when the " bearer of the look " is female - identified , and the object of that glance is female as well ( 2013 , p . 18 ) . Several distinct , frequently intersecting female gazes in ..."