Dictatorships in the Hispanic World

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 *

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.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Feminine Voices of Resistance against Dictatorships: Prison Memories from Spain and Argentina, Ana Corbaln 2 Nostalgia, Memory and Politics in Chilean Documentaries of Return, Antonio Traverso 3 National History and Resistance in Ricardo Piglias Respiracin artificial and Juan Goytisolos Reivindicacin del Conde don Julin, 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 plaa del diamant, Irene Gmez-Castellano 6 Reimagining Gendered Identities in Laforet's Nada and Dazs 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 Len-Tvora 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-Martnez and Rick McCallister About the Contributors Index