Creators And Created Beings In Twentieth Century Latin American Fiction

Author : Amy Frazier-Yoder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666925531

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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction by Amy Frazier-Yoder Pdf

Characters are made, scripted, and invented, but Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction explores what occurs when literary creations become creators themselves. Representing Latin American fiction’s increasingly skeptical gaze in the early- to mid- twentieth century, these literary creators breach the metafictional frame in order to problematize themes including life and death, gender and sexuality, and technology. Drawing upon a diverse range of literary works by canonical and non-canonical authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Horacio Quiroga, Carlos Onetti, Julio Cortázar, María Luisa Bombal, Carlos Fuentes, Roberto Arlt, Juan José Arreola, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, Clemente Palma, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Pedro Angelici, this study excavates critical ontological and epistemological inquiries and delves into questions of identity, power, scientific knowledge, and the transformative nature of fiction.

Author : Amy Frazier-Yoder
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1666925527

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Creators and Created Beings in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction by Amy Frazier-Yoder Pdf

Examining a variety of early- to mid-twentieth century Latin American fiction genres, Amy Frazier-Yoder delves into themes of power, identity, and the transformative potential of literature while analyzing Latin American fiction's increasingly skeptical gaze.

Author : Patricia E. Reagan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498524728

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Deconstructing Paradise by Patricia E. Reagan Pdf

Deconstructing Paradise investigates Christian symbols that appear in Latin American Literature in an inverted way. The texts under investigation invert the Christian center to generate a social, political, cultural, or even artistic commentary. In doing so, each text underscores a search for meaning that rejects the centering presence of the more traditional Christian focus that has long validated humankind’s existence both in society and in literature. As Deconstructing Paradise examines, finding a unified center around which to construct meaning is no longer possible, although the search for meaning persists in the inverted Christian center. The first three chapters analyze the trifecta of novels that offer a full allegory of inverted Christian symbolism including: Miguel Ángel Asturias’ El Señor Presidente; Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and José Donoso’s El lugar sin límites. Chapters Four and Five focus on inverted Christ and inverted Judas figures in multiple novels and short fiction. As many Latin American literary critics affirm, it is increasingly difficult to categorize fiction after the Boom, although even the usefulness of these categories is ultimately questionable. Literary critics now look for patterns and Deconstructing Paradise offers one such pattern by identifying a trend in an impressive scope of the well-known authors of twentieth-century Latin American literature, while also tracing this pattern back to nineteenth-century precursors. Deconstructing Paradise offers a unique and comprehensive look at a significant trend that will undoubtedly foment new ideas and paths of study in contemporary Latin American literature.

Author : Gerald Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066127302

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Journeys Through the Labyrinth by Gerald Martin Pdf

Author : Fabricio Tocco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793651655

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Latin American Detectives against Power by Fabricio Tocco Pdf

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374533182

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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by Ilan Stavans Pdf

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Author : Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : 9781134399604

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 by Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.

Author : Adrian Taylor Kane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786457601

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The Natural World in Latin American Literatures by Adrian Taylor Kane Pdf

From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American literature. In contrast to the rise of ecocritical scholarship in Anglophone literary studies, Latin American literary ecocriticism has been slower to take root. This volume of eleven essays seeks to advance the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments. The essays address regions as diverse as Patagonia and the Chihuahua Desert.

Author : Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739192719

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Identity in Latin American and Latina Literature by Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez Pdf

This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new definitions of the self lie beyond Power’s reach. Moreover, this book delves into how both Power and Space collude to uphold the out-of-date sexist, racist, and classist societal norms that Eurocentrism and history continue to cleave to as the defining qualities of the nation and its citizens. With the proliferation of Latin literature within the United States, an ideological readjustment is taking place whereby several late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century authors contest the State’s role in defining its citizens by exposing the unjust role that Space and Power play. With this in mind,the author examines several literary versions of identity to explore how certain authors reject and subvert the social mores against which present-day citizens are measured—especially within government or State institutions but also within families and neighborhoods. The literary works that are analyzed cover a period of twenty-five years ending in 2010. Several of these texts rewrite the national allegory from the point of view of the marginalized while others demonstrate how an individual successfully renegotiates her identity—gender, social class, or ethnicity—from being a disadvantage to being an identity marker to celebrate. The authors defy the place that women are still relegated to, by representing several characters who consciously decide that it is time to battle the forces that would keep them powerless in the public arena. Above all, these texts are anti-Power; the protagonists refuse to accept the societal forces which constantly barrage them, defining them as worthless. These authors and their characters challenge everything that historically has kept women relegated to a space of weakness.

Author : Merlin H. Forster,K. David Jackson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313248610

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Vanguardism in Latin American Literature by Merlin H. Forster,K. David Jackson Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, authors from Latin American countries have contributed some of the freshest and most original works to world literature. Foremost among these contributions are the works of the Latin American vanguardists, to whom this bibliography serves as a research guide. Rather than listing everything ever written by and about the vanguardists, this volume narrows its focus to a fundamental 15 year period, 1920 through 1935, and selects, assesses, and annotates both primary and secondary materials from those years. Secondary materials published since 1935 are also included as part of the listings. The guide is organized in four major parts. An introductory essay is first, formulating a multi-national working synthesis of vanguardism in Latin America and providing a conceptual background for the bibliographic listings. This is followed by a general list that is an annotated gathering of critical and bibliographic materials that documents and supports the multi-national approach established in the introduction. It offers a detailed overview of the general material available on vanguardism. The largest of the sections is the national lists, which provide categorized information on vanguardist groups, major figures, individual works, and literary journals, organized in a geographic framework. Both the general and national lists divide sources into those of the 1920-1935 time period and those critical studies written since 1935. The entries in these sections follow standard bibliographic formats, with titles maintained in their original languages and annotations in English. The volume concludes with a detailed, cross-referenced index that utilizes the unique designating numbers assigned in the bibliographic listings. For courses in Latin American and twentieth century literature, this work will be an essential reference source, and both public and academic libraries will certainly find it to be a valuable addition to their collections.

Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292774025

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The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel by Raymond Leslie Williams Pdf

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.

Author : Richard Young,Odile Cisneros
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810874989

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Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater by Richard Young,Odile Cisneros Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history.

Author : Vicky Unruh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520915240

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Latin American Vanguards by Vicky Unruh Pdf

In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism—a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers—was stimulated by the European avant-garde movements of the World War I era. But as Unruh's wide-ranging study attests, the vanguards of Latin America—emerging from the continent's own historical circumstances—developed a very distinct character and voice. Through manifestos, experimental texts, and ribald public performance, the vanguardists' work intertwined art, culture, and the politics of the day to produce a powerful brand of aesthetic activism, one that sparked an entire rethinking of the meaning of art and culture throughout Latin America.

Author : E. Cardenas,J. Ocampo,R. Thorp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230595682

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America by E. Cardenas,J. Ocampo,R. Thorp Pdf

In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period. This book attempts a fresh look at the controversial years between the end of the Second World War and the point when, at varying dates in different countries, a discontinuity occurs in which the postwar 'style of development' ceased to play a central role in the economic evolution of the region. The analysis is based on seven case studies covering eleven countries.

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135960339

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Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature by Verity Smith Pdf

The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.