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In this chapter Johnson traces a very specific Paraguayan genealogy of “counterlife,” (contravida) elaborated through three moments in particular: the chronicles of the Spanish anarchist writer Rafael Barrett ; several short stories and novels by the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos; and the movie Hamaca paraguaya (2006), directed by Paz Encina. By analyzing this corpus, Johnson argues for a Paraguayan counter-story of Latin America shaped by repeated disasters from which there is no teleological overcoming or exit. Such disasters have given rise to a keen and sustained line of thinking captured in the figure of a “counterlife.”
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Johnson, A. (2018). Paraguayan Counterlives. In: Pous, F., Quin, A., Viera, M. (eds) Authoritarianism, Cultural History, and Political Resistance in Latin America. Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53544-9_12
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