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La novela del dictador en Hispanoamerica
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ISBN: 8472323587 Year: 1985 Publisher: Madrid


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Historia, ideología y mito en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporànea.
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ISBN: 8433602993 Year: 1987 Publisher: Madrid : Ayuso,

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Fictions of African dictatorship : : postcolonial power across genres
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ISBN: 1787076814 1787076822 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Peter Lang,

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Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of veracity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony, and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction.

Images of dictatorship : portraits of Stalin in literature.
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ISBN: 0415037964 Year: 1989 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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Los dictadores latinoamericanos
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Mexico : Fondo de Cultura Económica,

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Forms of dictatorship
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ISBN: 0190642858 0190642882 0190642874 9780190642860 0190642866 9780190642884 9780190642853 9780190642877 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY

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An intraethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, this work examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.


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Tyrants Writing Poetry
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ISBN: 9633862035 9789633862032 9789633862025 9633862027 Year: 2017 Publisher: Budapest New York

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Why do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? This book contains nine case studies that compare the cultural history of totalitarian regimes. The essays focus not on the arts, literature or architecture but on the phenomenon that many of history's great despots considered themselves talented writers. By studying the artistic ambitions of Nero, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Saparmurat Niyazov and Radovan Karadzic, the authors explore the complicated relationship between poetry and political violence, and provide a fascinating look at the aesthetic dimensions of total power. The essays make an important contribution to a number of fields: the study of totalitarian regimes, cultural studies, and biographies of 20th century leaders. They underscore the frequent correlation between tyrannical governance and an excessive passion for language, and demonstrate that the combination of artistic and political charisma is often effective in the quest for absolute power.


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Il mondo allucinante : da Asturias a García Márquez : studi sul romanzo ispano-americano della dittatura
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Milano : Cisalpino-Goliardica,

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La escritura posmoderna del poder
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ISBN: 8424506464 Year: 1993 Publisher: Madrid Fundamentos

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La parola estautorata : figure dittatoriali nel romanzo africano francofono
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ISBN: 8820731827 9788820731823 Year: 2000 Volume: 31 Publisher: Napoli : Liguori Editore,

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Brutti e cattivi, feroci e crudeli, i dittatori che popolano i romanzi africani ricordano i tiranni del teatro greco. Ma gli esseri ieratici dell'Antichità classica si sono trasformati in impulsivi e patetici fantocci, protagonisti in una realtà straniata, della quale scandiscono le vicende con una brutalità dissennata. Gli scrittori ne hanno fatto i prototipi di una narrativa che, abbandonato definitivamente l'esempio occidentale, si serve delle parole ("mots") per raccontare i mali ("maux") dell'universo post-coloniale, abitato da contraddizioni dolorose e fatali, che nessun discorso ideologico può risolvere. Anche la parola dei dittatori si è irrimediabilmente sfaldata, resa inconsistente dalle ossessioni e dalle patologie che li affliggono. Attraverso il filtro arguto del narratore, il racconto delle loro gesta trasforma sconforto e miseria in una caustica ilarità che lascia intravedere un mondo ben più reale e non poi così lontano dai confini del romanzo.

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