Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/O Novel

by Jennifer Harford Vargas

Book Overview

An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary history of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190079673
• ISBN13: 9780190079673
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"