Contemporary Latin American Fiction: Seven Essays
Author : Salvador Bacarise
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Page : 109 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
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ISBN : 9789080051973
Author : Salvador Bacarise
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
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ISBN : 9789080051973
Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780822312697
Case studies tricked-out to resemble short fiction. No index or literature references. Seven essays by Chilean novelist and social critic Dorfman, profile the work of other Latin American writers, including Asturias, Borges, and Marquez. This is the first English translation of the essays, which were written and published over a 20-year span. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Salvador Bacarisse
Publisher : Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Gladys M. Varona-Lacey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2001-08-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780658015069
Contemporary Latin American Literature reflects the wealth of great writers of Latin America over the last hundred years, including Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Noble Prize winners Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The selections--almost 100 works in their original form--include English definitions for difficult Spanish words.
Author : José Eduardo González
Publisher :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9783319924397
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or "spaces of hope" can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.
Author : José Carlos Mariátegui
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0292762666
"Once again I repeat that I am not an impartial; objective critic. My judgments are nourished by my ideals, my sentiments, my passions. I have an avowed and resolute ambition: to assist in the creation of Peruvian socialism. I am far removed from the academic techniques of the university."—From the Author's Note Jose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and other Latin American social thinkers have been profoundly influenced by his writings. Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana), first published in 1928, is Mariátegui's major statement of his position and has gone into many editions, not only in Peru but also in other Latin American countries. The topics discussed in the essays—economic evolution, the problem of the Indian, the land problem, public education, the religious factor, regionalism and centralism, and the literary process—are in many respects as relevant today as when the book was written. Mariátegui's thinking was strongly tinged with Marxism. Because contemporary sociology, anthropology, and economics have been influenced by Marxism much more in Latin America than in North America, it is important that North Americans become more aware of Mariátegui's position and accord it its proper historical significance. Jorge Basadre, the distinguished Peruvian historian, in an introduction written especially for this translation, provides an account of Mariátegui's life and describes the political and intellectual climate in which these essays were written.
Author : Pat McNees
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 1996-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0449912264
Striking in its imagery, its history, and its breathtaking scope, Latin American fiction has finally come into its own throughout the world. Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century, including: Jorge Luis Borges Carlos Fuentes Julio Cortazar Miguel Angel Asturias Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Amado Octavio Paz Juan Bosch Jose Donoso Horacio Quiroga Mario Vargas Llosa Abelardo Castillo Guillermo Cabrera Infante And many more
Author : John King
Publisher : London : Faber & Faber
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Latin American fiction
ISBN :
Essays focus on the works of Garcia Marquez, Borges, Vargas Llosa and Puig.
Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292788894
By one of the most original and learned critical voices in Hispanic studies— a timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. An ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature, argues Roberto González Echevarría, through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read. In the works themselves this ideology is constantly subjected to a radical critique, and that critique renders the ideology productive and in a sense is what constitutes the work. In literary criticism, however, too frequently the ideology merely serves as support for an authoritative discourse that seriously misrepresents Latin American literature. In The Voice of the Masters, González Echevarría attempts to uncover the workings of modern Latin American literature by creating a dialogue of texts, a dynamic whole whose parts are seven illuminating essays on seminal texts in the tradition. As he says, "To have written a sustained, expository book ... would have led me to make the same kind of critical error that I attribute to most criticism of Latin American literature.... I would have naively assumed an authoritative voice while attempting a critique of precisely that critical gesture." Instead, major works by Barnet, Cabrera Infante, Carpentier, Cortázar, Fuentes, Gallegos, García Márquez, Roa Bastos, and Rodó are the object of a set of independent deconstructive (and reconstructive) readings. Writing in the tradition of Derrida and de Man, González Echevarría brings to these readings both the penetrative brilliance of the French master and a profound understanding of historical and cultural context. His insightful annotation of Cabrera Infante's "Meta-End," the full text of which is presented at the close of the study, clearly demonstrates these qualities and exemplifies his particular approach to the text.
Author : Philip Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317620291
In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.