Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2023
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ISBN : 1527551768
Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction
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Dictatorship In Fact And In Fiction
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Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction
Keith Ellis
Author : Keith Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527551770
Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction by Keith Ellis Pdf
Dictatorship in Fact and in Fiction focuses on independence movements led by “dictadores” in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents theses and antitheses concerning the intellectual determinants and social conditions that give rise to and sustain what many call dictatorships. It also considers the false attribution of “dictatorship”, relying sometimes on the stigma produced by the word and its cognates to refer to such figures as José Martí, Simón Bolívar, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Paraguayans named their “dictador,” José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, “El supremo Dictador Perpetuo”. Unlike his fellow “dictadores”, such as Simón Bolívar, who achieved Independence by daunting deeds of physical and intellectual leadership, Francia ensured Paraguay’s independence by enhancing its unity and productivity. And yet Sarmiento, despite his ethnic cleansing, is more widely admired. This example points to our moral duty to define “dictatorship” and, by extension, to the indispensability of the present volume.
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction
Gustavo Carvajal
Author : Gustavo Carvajal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Chilean fiction
ISBN : 1786838036
Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction by Gustavo Carvajal Pdf
This book discusses the representation of women's memories of the dictatorship in the recent work of seven Chilean novelists.
Constitution, Fact Or Fiction
Eugene Schroder,Micki Nellis
Author : Eugene Schroder,Micki Nellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 188553406X
Constitution, Fact Or Fiction by Eugene Schroder,Micki Nellis Pdf
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Alastair Smith
Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Alastair Smith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610390453
The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Alastair Smith Pdf
A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their subjects-unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.
Dictator Literature
Daniel Kalder
Author : Daniel Kalder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786070593
Dictator Literature by Daniel Kalder Pdf
A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times ‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’s Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin’s own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Little Red Book, Mussolini and Saddam Hussein their romance novels, Kim Jong-il his treatise on the art of film, Hitler his hate-filled tracts. What do these texts reveal about their authors, the worst people imaginable? And how did they shape twentieth-century history? To find out, Daniel Kalder read them all – the badly written and the astonishingly badly written – so that you don’t have to. This is the untold history of books so terrible they should have been crimes.
The Dictator Novel
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Author : Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140424
The Dictator Novel by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Pdf
Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But “dictator novels” do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship. As this genre has developed and cohered, it has acquired a self-generating force distinct from its historical referents. The dictator novel has become a space in which writers consider the difficulties of national consolidation, explore the role of external and global forces in sustaining dictatorship, and even interrogate the political functions of writing itself. Literary representations of the dictator, therefore, provide ground for a self-conscious and self-critical theorization of the relationship between writing and politics itself. The Dictator Novel positions novels about dictators as a vital genre in the literatures of the Global South. Primarily identified with Latin America, the dictator novel also has underacknowledged importance in the postcolonial literatures of francophone and anglophone Africa. Although scholars have noted similarities, this book is the first extensive comparative analysis of these traditions; it includes discussions of authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Mármol, Esteban Echeverría, Ousmane Sembène , Chinua Achebe, Aminata Sow Fall, Henri Lopès, Sony Labou Tansi, and Ahmadou Kourouma. This juxtaposition illuminates the internal dynamics of the dictator novel as a literary genre. In so doing, Armillas-Tiseyra puts forward a comparative model relevant to scholars working across the Global South.
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804190114
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Pdf
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.
Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel
Robert Spencer
Author : Robert Spencer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030665562
Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel by Robert Spencer Pdf
This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial dictatorships and explore the shape of the democratic-egalitarian alternatives. The first chapter explains the ‘neoliberal’ period after the 1970s as an effective ‘recolonization’ of Africa by Western states and international financial institutions. Dictatorship is theorised as a form of concentrated economic and political power that facilitates Africa’s continued dependency in the context of world capitalism. The deepest aspiration of anti-colonial revolution remains the democratization of these authoritarian states inherited from the colonial period. This book discusses four novels by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in order to reveal how their themes and forms dramatize this unfinished struggle between dictatorship and radical democracy.
Afterlives of Confinement
Susana Draper
Author : Susana Draper
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822978060
Afterlives of Confinement by Susana Draper Pdf
During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the post-dictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the "opening" of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship Latin America. Focusing on the Southern Cone nations of Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina, Draper examines key works in architecture, film, and literature to peel away the veiled continuity of dictatorial power structures in ensuing consumer cultures. The afterlife of prisons became an important tool in the "forgetting" of past politics, while also serving as a reminder to citizens of the liberties they now enjoyed. In Draper's analysis, these symbols led the populace to believe they had attained freedom, although they had only witnessed the veneer of democracy--in the ability to vote and consume. In selected literary works by Roberto Bolaño, Eleuterio Fernández Huidoboro, and Diamela Eltit and films by Alejandro Agresti and Marco Bechis, Draper finds further evidence of the emptiness and melancholy of underachieved goals in the afterlife of dictatorships. The social changes that did not occur, the inability to effectively mourn the losses of a now-hidden past, the homogenizing effects of market economies, and a yearning for the promises of true freedom are thematic currents underlying much of these texts. Draper's study of the manipulation of culture and consumerism under the guise of democracy will have powerful implications not only for Latin Americanists but also for those studying neoliberal transformations globally.
Images of Dictatorship (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin)
Rosalind Marsh
Author : Rosalind Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351762021
Images of Dictatorship (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin) by Rosalind Marsh Pdf
Originally published in 1989, this book presented the first study of the image of Stalin in literature. Analysing the literary presentaiton of historical character and the treatment of 20th Century tyrants in European prose fiction, the book draws a comparison between the depiction of Hitler in German literature and Stalin in Russian literature. It explores the way in which Stalin has been portrayed by Soviet, emigré Russian, and European writers including Orwell, Nabokov, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. It examines in detail two important novels which had hitherto received little critical attention: the revised (1978) version of Sozhenitsyn's The First Circle and Anatoly Rybakov's Children of the Arbat. This book will be of interest to students of Soviet/Russian literature, history and politics and those intsted in the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th Century.
Fiction and Truth in Transition
Oscar Hemer
Author : Oscar Hemer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643801227
Fiction and Truth in Transition by Oscar Hemer Pdf
What can fiction tell us about the world that journalism and science cannot? This simple yet vast question is the starting-point for an interrogation of the relationship between literary fiction and society's dramatic transformation in South Africa and Argentina over the past several decades. The resulting discursive text borders on both journalism and literature, incorporating reportage, essay, and memoir. (Series: Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology - Vol. 34)
Dictator
Robert Harris
Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446409107
Dictator by Robert Harris Pdf
PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024 'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail 'Climatic in every sense . . . I could not put it down' Guardian There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill and courage. And for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static. And no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others. 'The finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' The Scotsman
Private Government
Elizabeth Anderson
Author : Elizabeth Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691192246
Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson Pdf
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners on the job, and employers often extend their authority to the off-duty lives of workers, who can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else employers care to govern. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.
How to Be a Dictator
Frank Dikötter
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639730681
How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter Pdf
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.
