Literary notes about junta (AI summary)
In literature the term "junta" appears versatile, often designating a council or administrative body endowed with authority in political, military, or social matters. Some works employ it to denote formal institutions or revolutionary committees, as seen when a junta carries out official functions or assumes executive power [1, 2, 3, 4]. In other narratives it conveys a sense of informal gathering or a secretive collective—ranging from family assemblies with considerable social influence [5, 6] to covert conspiracies flanked by intrigue and dissent [7, 8]. Additionally, some texts utilize "junta" to underscore the conflicts between established order and emergent power, highlighting its role as both a catalyst for change and a symbol of bureaucratic control [9, 10, 11].
- By the seventh, this Junta takes the name of the Administrative Provincial Junta.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca - The Central Junta had absconded on the 23rd, taking along with it both its Executive Committee and the Ministers of State.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810 Ocaña, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras by Charles Oman - 128 May 13th.—Spanish Junta ask for Joseph Bonaparte to be their king.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 by Emperor of the French Napoleon I - In 1974, a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (who had ruled since 1930) and established a socialist state.
— from The 2010 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency - The family junta wish this heiress to be married to one of their band—which is it?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - She even accompanied her to the junta, it not being thought proper that the Queen should be alone amid such an assemblage of men.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de - There, then, were Madame Walravens, Madame Beck, Père Silas—the whole conjuration, the secret junta.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - "I say nothing against the Junta," said Don Roderigo.
— from Ponce de Leon: The Rise of the Argentine Republic by William Pilling - The junta was dismissed and he and Yegros were invested with supreme power under the title of Consuls.
— from The South American Republics, Part 1 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson - He established a permanent Junta of war, stopped the liberty of the press, and decreed the enforced enlistment of all men between sixteen and sixty.
— from Mexico by Susan Hale - The royal family was cavalierly treated, and constitutional government superseded by a junta of officers.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee
