La Máquina Dictatorial: Poder Y Narrativa En Guatemala, Colombia Y Venezuela

Julio Quintero is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Grove City College. He is interested in the theory of imagination and representation in the narrative of the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and South America as well as the inclusion of innovative ways of teaching Spanish and Hispanic American culture in the classroom. Taking the criticism of the dictator’s narrative from the early 1980s as a turning point, La máquina dictatorial analyses repetitions of the despotic as if they were parts added to an old mechanism of representation. La máquina dictatorial focuses on novels by Arturo Uslar Pietri, R.H. Moreno Durán, Federico Vegas and Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Quintero is the author of El poeta en la novela hispanoamericana (Universidad de Antioquia, 2010) and his articles and reviews have appeared in Hispanic Issues and Revista Hispánica Moderna e Hispania, among others.