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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth-Century Latin American Dictatorships -- 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 -- 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

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

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 -- 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 -- Works Cited -- Index

"Overwriting the Dictator is literary study of life writing and dictatorship in Americas. Its focus is women who have attempted to rewrite, or overwrite, discourses of womanhood and nationalism in the dictatorships of their nations of origin. The project covers five 20th century autocratic governments: the totalitarianism of Rafael Trujillo's regime in the Dominican Republic, the dynasty of the Somoza family in Nicaragua, the charismatic, yet polemical impact of Juan and Eva Perón on the proletariat of Argentina, the controversial rule of Fidel Castro following Cuba's 1959 revolution, and Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état that transformed Chile into a police state. Each chapter traces emerging patterns of experimentation with autobiographical form and determines how specific autocratic methods of control suppress certain methods of self-representation and enable others. The book foregrounds ways in which women's self-representation produces a counter-narrative that critiques and undermines dictatorial power with the depiction of women as self-aware, resisting subjects engaged in repositioning their gendered narratives of national identity."--EBSCO.

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