Offers in-depth case studies and analyses of the tensions, ruptures, and reciprocal mediations between culture and politics throughout Paraguay's historical evolution
Reconsiders the crucial importance of Paraguayan culture within the broader regional context in which the country has been constituted
Addresses the lack of a significant body of English-language publications on Paraguayan cultural history and production through the contributions of both emerging and established scholars

Autorentext
Federico Pous is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Elon University, USA.

Alejandro Quin teaches modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture at the University of Utah, USA.
Marcelino Viera is Assistant Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Exposing Paraguay.- 2. War and Dismemberment: The Paraguayan War According to León de Palleja's Diario (1866).- 3. Poetry and Revisionism. Notes on Authority and Restoration in Postwar Paraguay.- 4. Writing the State: The Re-Distribution of Sovereignty and the Figure of the Legislator in I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos.- 5. Indigenous Art: The Challenge of the Universal.- 6. Inheritances of Carlos Colombino. Painting and the Making of a Democratic Paraguay.- 7. Interrupted Visions of History: Nineteenth-century Illustrated Newspapers and the History of (Popular) Art in Contemporary Paraguay.- 8. The Wings of Carlos Colombino: Architect, Artist, Writer (An Interview).- 9. Beyond Coercion: Social Legitimation and Conservative Modernization in the Stroessner Regime (1954-1989).- 10. 108/Cuchillo de palo (2010): Limits and Political Potentialities of Queer Countermemory.- 11. De-parting Paraguay: The Interruption of the Aesthetic Gaze in Siete Cajas (2012).- 12. Paraguayan Counterlives.- 13. Paraguayan Realism as Cruelty in Gabriel Casaccia's El guajhú.- 14. Rafael Barrett's Haunted Letter.