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Spin Red

By: Lisa Palanca

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What happens when a practical joke goes wrong? It is 1976 as you join a group of Michigan coeds on a road trip to Kentucky. Merri, the group's self-proclaimed queen of practical jokes is in for a shock when her well-planned schemes begin to unravel and the joke turns out to be on her. Unexpected players step in as the practical jokes become more intricate. The girls are invited to the Kentucky Derby, and the plot goes wild when two pranks collide leaving each collaborator picking up the pieces. It is a wild ride that will keep you guessing and wanting more.

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1662485409

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Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation

Overwriting the Dictator

By: Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

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Américanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation

Overwriting the Dictator

By: Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

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.

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