Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America

1. Introduction: Exposing Paraguay
Federico Pous, Alejandro Quin, Marcelino Viera

Part I. Writing the Limits of Authoritarian Paraguay

2. Disintegrating Bodies: The Undoing of the Discourse of War in Palleja’s Diario (1865–66)
Javier Uriarte

3. Poetry and Revisionism: Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay
Alejandro Quin

4. Writing the State: The Redistribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the “Legislator” in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos
John Kraniauskas

Part II. Preaching Popular Art in Paraguay

5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the Universal
Ticio Escobar

6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino: Painting and the Making of a Democratic Paraguay
Horacio Legrás

7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary Paraguay
Sebastián J. Díaz-Duhalde

8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (an Interview)
Adriana Johnson, Horacio Legrás

Part III. Flashes of Memory in Paraguay: The Legacies of Stronism

9. Beyond Coercion: Social Legitimation and Conservative Modernization in the Stroessner Regime (1954–1989)
Lorena Soler

10.
108/Cuchillo de Palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer Countermemory
Eva Karene Romero

11. De-Parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012)
Federico Pous

Part IV. Tracing la realidad que delira

12. Paraguayan Counterlives
Adriana Johnson

13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia’s El Guajhú

Gabriel Horowitz

14. Rafael Barrett’s Haunted Letter
Marcelino Viera

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics, Regionalism, Latin American Culture, Latin American Cinema, Comparative Literature