Patricia Lapolla Swier Livres

The book explores how gender influences national identities in post-independence Latin America, highlighting the struggles for power that challenge traditional gender roles. It discusses how writers during this era employed oppositional gender concepts to contest dominant governments, creating new male national figures to replace caudillo leaders. The fluctuating gender conceptualizations, influenced by European scientific and philosophical trends, lead to the emergence of ambiguous or androgynous male identities, deconstructing traditional binary perceptions of gender.

This book provides a transatlantic and interdisciplinary perspective of dictatorships in the Hispanic World, focusing on the common strategies used to represent and/or protest these regimes in narrative, film, poetry, essays, theater, and visual arts.