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    "title": "Tortured Text: An Analysis of the Absent Pages of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Zero",
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    "abstract": "Born of political repression, censorship and torture, the novel \nZero: romance pré-histórico\n by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão was revised in congruence with the intensity of repression in Brazil. In 2001, a new edition integrated pages that had been previously excluded from the novel. In this essay, I borrow narratological terms from Gérard Genette and David Herman to examine the most politically charged sections from the missing pages. A close reading sheds light on the relationship between what Herman calls the storyworld, that is, the fictional world of Latíndia-America that Loyola created, and what we think of as the real world in which Loyola was writing. I analyze how the content of the missing pages challenges the hegemonic ideology of the regime that banned \nZero\n in its construction of a meta-commentary on neocolonial relations between Brazil and the United States. By employing Elaine Scarry’s work on the structure of torture, I argue that censorship and torture operate both textually and extra-textually in \nZero\n. The missing pages illuminate this relationship in their criticism of a regime characterized by its dependence on censorship and torture to maintain its illegitimate and flagging power.",
    "language": "en",
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            "word": "brazil"
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            "word": "censorship"
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            "word": "Torture"
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            "word": "dictatorship"
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            "word": "Literary Criticism"
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            "first_name": "Kristal",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bivona",
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            "institution": "UC Los Angeles",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2013-02-14T02:02:21Z",
    "date_accepted": "2013-02-14T02:02:21Z",
    "date_published": "2013-12-29T17:07:36Z",
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