Americanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation

Introduction: "Impossible Autobiography: Women's Life Writing and Twentieth Century Latin American Dictatorships"

Chapter 1: "I Remember Trujillo: Trujillo en Mis Memorias Denial, Shame, Martyrdom, and Nostalgia in Dominican Women's Memoir"

Remembering Trujillo: The Memoir Boom

Dictator as Tragic Hero: Aida Trujillo and the Shadow of Third-Person Memoir

The Daughter and the Demi-God: Fugitive Acts in Flor de Oro Trujillo's Memoir Expose

Memoir as "Casa-Museo": Dede Mirabal's Ritual Memorial and the Transmission of Memory

Patremoir as Post-Dictatorial Counter-tour: Angelita Trujillo's Publicly Private Nostalgia

?Seguire a Caballo?: Trujillo in the Twenty-first Century Imagination

Chapter 2: "Duena y Senora de Su Canto": Autobiographical Depictions of the New Nicaraguan Woman

Poetic Interiorismo and "The Six": Why This Is Not Testimonio

Milk Poems and Blood Poems: Womanhood, Embodiment, and the New Nicaraguan Woman

The Mirror Poems: Refractory and Reciprocal Recognition

Chapter 3: "'Distinguished Ladies' and the Doctrine of Chilean Womanhood: The 'Anti-manuals' of Diamela Eltit, Isabel Allende and Marjorie Agosin"

The Distinguished Woman

Auto-surveillance and Auto-performance in Diamela Eltit's E. Luminata

"Only a Woman Could Imagine a Story Like This": Desire and Patriotism in Isabel Allende's Aphrodite and My Invented Country

Marjorie Agosin's Filial Narrative: Producing Genres of Liberation in the Next Generation

Matremoir: A Cross and A Star

Patremoir: Always from Somewhere Else

Chapter 4: "Exile Memory and The Paradigmatic Before-and-After in Post-1959 Cuban Women's Life Writing"

Overwriting Fidel: Zoe Valdes on How a Leftist Dictator is Still a Dictator

Revisionary Exile Memory

"Salida Definitiva / Definitive Departure": Ruth Behar's Autoethnographic Memory and the Impossibility of Return

Reconciling the Irreconcilable

Chapter 5: "'There is No Need for Us to Speak of Eva Peron': Evita's Caudillagrafia"

Caudillagrafia: Autobiography as Peronist Manifesto

Doctrinary Overwriting: How to Hide a Dictator

Shadow and Light

The Condor and the Sparrow

El Simulacro: Not Even the Perons were the Perons

Old Eva / New Evita

The "Benefactress"

La Presidenta / La Resentida

The Heart and the Womb of Argentina

Conclusion: Self-less Self-representation

Conclusion: "Common Denominators: Impossible Autobiographies"