Latin American Fiction And The Narratives Of The Perverse

Author : P. O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403978707

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Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse by P. O'Connor Pdf

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse contains analysis of sexual perversion and narrative creativity in fictions from the Latin American boom and post-boom. O'Connor's main argument is that orthodox criticism of Latin American literature has neglected the eccentric singularities of other fictive trends in the corpus (especially in the second half of the twentieth-century). At the same time, by examining these eccentric singularities in their relationship to mainstream trends in the Latin American corpus, O'Connor forces his readers to view these master narratives and major trends (such as modernismo or magical realism) from surprisingly new angles. Five of the authors discussed (Puig, Lezama, Lima, Cortazar and Sarduy) have an established place in the Latin American literary canon. A fifth one, Rosario Ferre, may have come close to achieving that status with her earlier fictions. Others (Felisberto Hernandez, Alicia Borinsky, Cristina Peri Rossi and Silvia Molloy) are less well known, but they are certainly highly significant authors for scholars and students of contemporary Latin American fiction.

Author : María del Pilar Blanco
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823242160

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Ghost-Watching American Modernity by María del Pilar Blanco Pdf

In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways in which ghosts and haunting emerge across the American hemisphere for authors who are preoccupied with evoking the experience of geographical transformations during a period of unprecedented development. The book offers an innovative approach that seeks to understand ghosts in their local specificity, rather than as products of generic conventions or as allegories of hidden desires. Its chapters pursue formally attentive readings of texts by Domingo Sarmiento, Henry James, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, and Clint Eastwood. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of spectrality for scholars in U.S./Latin American Studies, narrative theory, and comparative literature, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms.

Author : Matthew J. Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137574657

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Queer Argentina by Matthew J. Edwards Pdf

Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public figures, including César Aira, María Moreno, Naty Menstrual and Copi, among others, provide case studies where heterosexual social models are rejected and, in their place, queer frameworks become the preferred model for living differently. Queer Argentina traces the movements of today’s marginalized communities as they pass through and choose to remain within the closet: a space that is emblematic of collective struggles in silence and community formation outside the (hetero)norm.

Author : Sarah Ann Wells
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810134560

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Media Laboratories by Sarah Ann Wells Pdf

Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and ’40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing, began to be challenged by authors, workers, and the public. What happens when media no longer seem novel and potentially democratic but rather consolidated and dominant? Moving among authors from Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and among the genres of fiction, the essay, popular journalism, and experimental little magazines, Sarah Ann Wells shows how writers on the periphery of global modernity were fashioning alternative approaches to these media. Analyzing authors such as Clarice Lispector, Jorge Luis Borges, and Felisberto Hernández, along with their lesser-known contemporaries, Media Laboratories casts a wide net: from spectators of Hollywood and Soviet montage films, to inventors of imaginary media, to proletarian typists who embodied the machine-human encounters of the period. The text navigates contemporary scholarly and popular debates about the relationship of literature to technological innovation, media archaeology, sound studies, populism, and global modernisms. Ultimately, Wells underscores a question that remains relevant: what possibilities emerge when the enthusiasm for new media has been replaced by anxiety over their potentially pernicious effects in a globalizing, yet vastly unequal, world?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180392

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172148881588

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Latin American Research Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Phillip Swanson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405140850

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Latin American Fiction by Phillip Swanson Pdf

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. Introduces debates about how to read this literature. Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts. Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende. Covers nation-building narratives, ‘modernismo’, the New Novel, the Boom, the Post-Boom, Magical Realism, Hispanic fiction in the USA, and more.

Author : Salem Press
Publisher : Magill's Choice
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114529071

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Notable Latino Writers by Salem Press Pdf

Surveys approximately 125 major U.S. Latino writers and world Spanish-language writers translated into English who have contributed to the rich heritage of Latino and Hispanic literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015074899090

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Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015062080349

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628971910

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The Great Latin American Novel by Carlos Fuentes Pdf

One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond. A landmark analysis, as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great author's peers and influences, this book is as much a contribution to Latin American literature as it is a chronicle of that literature's greatest achievements.

Author : Claudia Ferman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0815313306

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The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives by Claudia Ferman Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gina Ponce de Leon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443862837

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Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism by Gina Ponce de Leon Pdf

The authors of Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism argue that, while the more traditional feminists of the 20th century did not recognize in their theoretical and literary work the diversity of women’s experiences, current Latin American post-feminist and post-modern writers are proposing a transgressive new social order, resulting in a more significant cultural resistance to the society they represent. The authors included in this volume show that the narrative of the writers analyzed here is not limited to recognizing issues focused on gender or even sexuality, but also explores the female aspiration of a dignified life and overcoming the dominant structures in their social, political and cultural dimension. The complex female situation of this millennium has become the primary quandary while searching for new forms to represent women in literature. In Twenty-First Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism, the authors confront this dilemma in a sharp, sophisticated and harmonious way, offering a critical text that will be of interest for both specialists and general readers interested in Latin American literature and culture of the recent years.

Author : L. Detwiler,J. Breckenridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137012142

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Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony by L. Detwiler,J. Breckenridge Pdf

Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.

Author : Philip Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620280

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Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Philip Swanson Pdf

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.