La fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat): Trujillo between patriarchal authority and the savage image of the nation
In La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat), by Mario Vargas Llosa, the author presents the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as a hybrid between patriarchal authority and authoritarian bureaucracy. The reflection that the author suggests is centered on the observation...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar |
| Repositorio: | Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/839 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/839 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Novela histórica Mario Vargas Llosa novela peruana novela latinoamericana dictadores nación República Dominicana Trujillo Historical novel Peruvian novel Latin American novel dictators nation Dominican Republic |
| Sumario: | In La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat), by Mario Vargas Llosa, the author presents the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as a hybrid between patriarchal authority and authoritarian bureaucracy. The reflection that the author suggests is centered on the observation of the relationship between representations of the leader’s credibility among the Dominican people and supposed “realities”, concerning these representations in the novel, that is, the relationship between literary fiction and the supposed cultural reading of the legitimacy of power in popular culture. One approach to this never-ending relationship between the representation and its object and the claims of adequacy between the two allows us to observe the relativization of violence that is part of the aforementioned literary representation. |
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