- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
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- Binding Violence
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter examines Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat. The three stories in the novel offer a “total vision” of how Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina's dictatorial regime (16 August 1930–30 May 1961) changed the Dominican Republic forever. Vargas Llosa not only defetishizes Trujillo with his literary realism; he also historicizes the dictator by granting Trujillo himself a historical vision about his own justifications for his refoundation of the state.
Keywords: The Feast of the Goat, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, dictatorship, dictators, Dominican Republic
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Literature, Violence, and Politics
- Part I: Sophocles' <i>Antigone</i> or The Invention of Politics: We the City
- Antigone and the Polis
- The Most Modern of Tragedies: The Politics of Burial
- Creon's Edict: The Barbarians at Home
- Dying Democratically: Antigone's Ritual
- Interlude
- Modern Tempo—Democratic Overture, State Finale
- Part II D. A. F. de Sade's <i>One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom</i> or The Reinvention of Politics: We the People
- Sade's Text and Sade's Times
- The Libertine Alliance: No Ordinary Pact in Times of War
- Necrophiliac Cannibals: Dismembering “Nonpeople,” Membering “The People”
- Domestic Consistency: Not Laws, but Order
- Frame within the Frame: Riveting Voices and Gazes
- Interlude
- Modern Sovereignty: Perversion of Democracy?
- Part III Mario Vargas Llosa's <i>The Feast of the Goat</i> or Sovereign Politics: We the Nation-State
- Vargas Liosa's Appeal to History: Within and Beyond Latin America
- Necropolitics I: From an “African Horde” to a Modern Country
- Necropolitics II: Rebonding the Nation
- Epilogue
- The Force of Imagination
- Case Index
