Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The papier-mache parrot
  • Writing aporia: aesthetics and politics in the dictator novel of the global South
  • Tabula rasa: Juan Manuel de Rosas and the emergence of the dictator as a literary figure
  • Fathers of the fatherlands: writing, politics, and literary form at the end of the Latin American "boom"
  • Mesaventures: the politics and poetics of the dictator novel in the African postcolony
  • The dictator in the corpolony: on the dictator novel in the time of transition
  • Afterword: Moving outward and forward.