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Author:   Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367893477

ISBN 10:   0367893479
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   04 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: ""Impossible Autobiography: Women’s Life Writing and Twentieth Century Latin American Dictatorships"" Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 ""Salida Definitiva / Definitive Departure"": Ruth Behar’s Autoethnographic Memory and the Impossibility of Return Reconciling the Irreconcilable Chapter 5: ""‘There is No Need for Us to Speak of Eva Perón’: Evita’s Caudillagrafia"" Caudillagrafia: Autobiography as Perónist Manifesto Doctrinary Overwriting: How to Hide a Dictator Shadow and Light The Condor and the Sparrow El Simulacro: Not Even the Peróns were the Peróns Old Eva / New Evita The ""Benefactress"" La Presidenta / La Resentida The Heart and the Womb of Argentina Conclusion: Self-less Self-representation Conclusion: ""Common Denominators: Impossible Autobiographies"""

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"""Throughout the work, Ortiz-Vilarelle articulates her analyses with a number of scholars in autobiography studies, such as Paul John Eakin, Leigh Gilmore, Marianne Hirsch, and Sidonie Smith. The text succeeds in laying out the myriad strategies women writers use to bypass the impossibility of writing the self in autocratic environments."" - Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly"

""Throughout the work, Ortiz-Vilarelle articulates her analyses with a number of scholars in autobiography studies, such as Paul John Eakin, Leigh Gilmore, Marianne Hirsch, and Sidonie Smith. The text succeeds in laying out the myriad strategies women writers use to bypass the impossibility of writing the self in autocratic environments."" - Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Author Information

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle (PhD, English, Wayne State University, 2000) is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. Her work appears in European Journal of Life Writing , a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , Life Writing Annual , and Life Writing . Her research also appears in critical collections and anthologies, including Inhabiting La Patria : Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez , edited by Emily Hipchen and Rebecca Harrison (2014). She was recently awarded the annual Hogan Prize (2018) by the editors of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies for recognition of an outstanding essay published in the journal. She has been a summer fellow at the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory (1998) and a visiting scholar in the Center for Biographical Research at the University of Hawai’i, at Manoa (summer 2018) and in the Departments of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies and English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton (2020). She currently serves as Book Reviews Editor for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

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