{"product_id":"forms-of-dictatorship-power-narrative-and-authoritarianism-in-the-latinao-novel-9780190079673","title":"Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina\/O Novel","description":"An intra-ethnic study of Latina\/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, \u003cem\u003eForms of Dictatorship \u003c\/em\u003eexamines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of\u003cbr\u003eLatina\/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina\/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina\/os' central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina\/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America\u003cbr\u003eimaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a Latina\/o counter-dictatorial imaginary that positions authoritarianism on a continuum of domination alongside imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, and border\u003cbr\u003emilitarization. Focusing on novels by writers such as Junot Díaz, Héctor Tobar, Cristina García, Salvador Plascencia, and Francisco Goldman, the book reveals how Latina\/o dictatorship novels foreground more ubiquitous modes of oppression to indict Latin American dictatorships, U.S. imperialism, and\u003cbr\u003estructural discrimination in the U.S., as well as repressive hierarchies of power in general. Harford Vargas simultaneously utilizes formalist analysis to investigate how Latina\/o writers mobilize the genre of the novel and formal techniques such as footnotes, focalization, emplotment, and\u003cbr\u003emetafiction to depict dictatorial structures and relations. In building on narrative theories of character, plot, temporality, and perspective, Harford Vargas explores how the Latina\/o dictatorship novel stages power dynamics. \u003cem\u003eForms of Dictatorship\u003c\/em\u003e thus queries the relationship between different\u003cbr\u003eforms of power and the power of narrative form --- that is, between various instantiations of repressive power structures and the ways in which different narrative structures can reproduce and resist repressive power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Harford Vargas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190079673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Harford Vargas\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39927184785523,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_45a3b62c-6a19-4773-9e54-afe9dfc51140.jpg?v=1647523672","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/forms-of-dictatorship-power-narrative-and-authoritarianism-in-the-latinao-novel-9780190079673","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}