Federico Pous – författare

Este libro indaga la experiencia de l@s prisioner@s politic@s bajo regimenes dictatoriales en Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina durante la segunda parte del siglo 20. El analisis ilumina ciertos eventos singulares ocurridos en las mazmorras de la dictadura, tales como fugas y liberaciones, para pensar el impacto del imaginario revolucionario en la construccion de la subjetividad politica, las narrativas sobre la militancia de izquierda y la memoria historica. Estos eventos carcelarios significaron el momento de mayor fortaleza y mayor debilidad del proyecto revolucionario: por un lado, desafiaron y burlaron dictaduras feroces, y por el otro, mostraron las fantasias politicas de la izquierda que precedieron la derrota catastrofica posterior. La hipotesis de lectura es que la distancia entre el gran acontecimiento revolucionario, que nunca tuvo lugar, y estos eventos singulares que parecian "confirmar" su llegada, se ha insertado como modus operandi de la subjetivacion politica desarticulando el horizonte de transformacion radical contemporanea.

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender studies, sociology, and political theory. The essays compiled here focus on the different narratives and political processes that shaped a country decentered from, but also deeply connected to, the rest of Latin America. Structured in four thematic sections, the book reflects upon authoritarianism; the tensions between modern, indigenous, and popular artistic expressions; the legacies of the Stroessner Regime, political resistance, and the struggle for collective memory; as well as the literary framing of historical trauma, particularly in connection with the Roabastian notion of la realidad que delira [delirious reality].

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender studies, sociology, and political theory. The essays compiled here focus on the different narratives and political processes that shaped a country decentered from, but also deeply connected to, the rest of Latin America. Structured in four thematic sections, the book reflects upon authoritarianism; the tensions between modern, indigenous, and popular artistic expressions; the legacies of the Stroessner Regime, political resistance, and the struggle for collective memory; as well as the literary framing of historical trauma, particularly in connection with the Roabastian notion of la realidad que delira [delirious reality].

This book takes on the challenge of conceptually thinking Paraguayan cultural history within the broader field of Latin American studies. It presents original contributions to the study of Paraguayan culture from a variety of perspectives that include visual, literary, and cultural studies; gender studies, sociology, and political theory. The essays compiled here focus on the different narratives and political processes that shaped a country decentered from, but also deeply connected to, the rest of Latin America. Structured in four thematic sections, the book reflects upon authoritarianism; the tensions between modern, indigenous, and popular artistic expressions; the legacies of the Stroessner Regime, political resistance, and the struggle for collective memory; as well as the literary framing of historical trauma, particularly in connection with the Roabastian notion of la realidad que delira [delirious reality].