Latin American Literary Review

Author : Pablo Calvi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986713

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Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism by Pablo Calvi Pdf

The Parrot and the Cannon is a study of the inception and development of Latin American literary journalism and the emergence of an original Latin American literature. Narrative journalism has played a central role in the formation of national identities of the various countries and in the supra-national idea of Latin America as a consolidated region. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America’s literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.

Author : Cecily Raynor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482580

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Latin American Literature at the Millennium by Cecily Raynor Pdf

Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.

Author : Mahāśvetā Debī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bengali fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015024816954

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Bashai Tudu by Mahāśvetā Debī Pdf

Author : Deborah N. Cohn
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826518040

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The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism During the Cold War by Deborah N. Cohn Pdf

How the dissemination of Latin American literature in the U.S. was "caught between the desire to support the literary revolution of the Boom writers and the fear of revolutionary politics" (John King).

Author : Cecilia Vicuña,Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195124545

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry by Cecilia Vicuña,Ernesto Livon-Grosman Pdf

The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Author : Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810142619

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Fictional Environments by Victoria Saramago Pdf

Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

Author : Christopher B. Conway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0813026830

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The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature by Christopher B. Conway Pdf

"A fascinating multidisciplinary cultural analysis of the figure of Bolívar that will be uniquely useful to those attempting to grapple with the influence of this figure on the Latin American imagination. Conway's persuasive and subtle analyses of historical, literary, and visual sources demonstrate how the authoritative image of Bolívar was constructed, appropriated, and contested from the independence period through the present."--Mary Beth Tierney-Tello, Wheaton College The Cult of Bolívar explores the Latin American cult of Simón Bolívar in modern literature through a broad array of texts that include fiction, children's literature, poetry, journalism, and presidential speeches. The image of Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) has been central to debates about Latin American identity since the 19th century and has been continually readapted to address current problems. This study examines the interplay of myth and disillusionment in modern representations of Bolívar. After outlining the emergence of the Cult of Bolívar during the Wars of Independence and the early national period, Christopher Conway uses novels to frame in-depth discussions of issues central to Bolivarian nationalism: the deification of the hero, monuments and iconoclasm, fatherhood and sexuality, and the promise and failure of modernity. This interdisciplinary study argues that representations of Bolívar trace the difficult and often contradictory processes by which nationalism imagines its past, present, and future. In addition to original archival research about the rise of Bolivarian nationalism in the 19th century and literary analyses of key novels such as Gabriel García Márquez's The General in His Labyrinth, Conway includes discussions of contemporary Latin American art and presidential politics. He utilizes gender studies and a broad spectrum of Bolivariana to frame our understanding of different aspects of hero worship. Also covered are controversial representations of Bolívar that resulted in public outcries in Latin America, such as Juan Dávila's hermaphroditic painting of Simón Bolívar and Denzil Romero's pornographic novel about Bolívar's mistress, Manuela Sáenz. Christopher B. Conway is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Brown University. He is the editor of Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma (2003) and has published articles on Latin American literature in Hispanic Review, Revista de Crítica Literaria, Latinoamericana, and other international journals.

Author : Sara Castro-Klaren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118492147

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A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture by Sara Castro-Klaren Pdf

A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE “The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.” Reference Review “In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian America to an intriguing consideration of recent developments in the debate on the modem and postmodern. Summing Up: Recommended.” CHOICE A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture reflects the changes that have taken place in cultural theory and literary criticism since the latter part of the twentieth century. Written by more than thirty experts in cultural theory, literary history, and literary criticism, this authoritative and up-to-date reference places major authors in the complex cultural and historical contexts that have compelled their distinctive fiction, essays, and poetry. This allows the reader to more accurately interpret the esteemed but demanding literature of authors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, and Diamela Eltit. Key authors whose work has defined a period, or defied borders, as in the cases of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, César Vallejo, and Gabriel García Márquez, are also discussed in historical and theoretical context. Additional essays engage the reader with in-depth discussions of forms and genres, and discussions of architecture, music, and film This text provides the historical background to help the reader understand the people and culture that have defined Latin American literature and its reception. Each chapter also includes short selected bibliographic guides and recommendations for further reading.

Author : Kenneth David Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300180824

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Machado de Assis by Kenneth David Jackson Pdf

Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as “another Kafka.” Philip Roth has said of him that “like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering.” And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that “he's funny as hell.”

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015039899938

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays by Ilan Stavans Pdf

An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195130850

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Pdf

This collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199912964

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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Pdf

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers all of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andr?s Bello and Jos? Mar?a de Heredia, through Borges and Garc?a M?rquez, to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bola?o.

Author : Héctor Hoyos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231538664

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Beyond Bolaño by Héctor Hoyos Pdf

Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, he identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant-garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual "Nazi" histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.

Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : Three Continents
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172113473177

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Women's Voice in Latin American Literature by Naomi Lindstrom Pdf

A detailed study of Latin American women authors that not only express women's concerns, but also are equally adept at translating those concerns into fictional expression.

Author : Noe Jitrik
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822386636

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The Noé Jitrik Reader by Noe Jitrik Pdf

The Argentine scholar Noé Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik’s work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing. Together they signal the variety of critical approaches and vocabularies Jitrik has embraced over the course of his long career, including French structuralist thought, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism. The Noé Jitrik Reader showcases Jitrik’s reflections on marginality and the canon, exile and return, lack and excess, autobiography, Argentine nationalism, the state of literary criticism, the avant-garde, and the so-called Boom in Latin American literature. Among the writers whose work he analyzes in the essays collected here are Jorge Luis Borges, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Martí, César Vallejo, José Bianco, Juan Carlos Onetti, José María Arguedas, Julio Cortázar, and Augusto Roa Bastos. The Noé Jitrik Reader offers English-language readers a unique opportunity to appreciate the rigor and thoughtfulness of one of Latin America’s most informed and persuasive literary critics.