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Latin American Novels of the Conquest

Author : Kimberle S. López
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263224
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Novels of the Conquest written by Kimberle S. López and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fictionalized explorers and conquistadors represented in this corpus all identify with certain aspects of Amerindian culture - significantly, those elements that are most distinct from European culture, such as cannibalism and human sacrifice - but also feel the need to distance themselves from these "others" in order to protect their own European cultural identity. In most cases, the conquistadors themselves are represented as outsiders within the enterprise of imperialism, due to ethnic, religious, or sexual differences from the norm. This representation turns the gaze inward toward the "other" within European culture, underscoring the complex origins of Latin American cultures in the violent encounter between the Amerindians and the conquistadors." "By examining these issues, Lopez's Latin American Novels of the Conquest illuminates the ways in which Latin American novelists used their literary imaginations to embody their ambivalence regarding their own transcultural heritage as children of both the colonized and the colonizer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

El Arpa Y la Sombra

Author : Alejo Carpentier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book El Arpa Y la Sombra written by Alejo Carpentier and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Figural Conquistadors

Author : Mark A. Hernández
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756454
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Figural Conquistadors written by Mark A. Hernández and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He demonstrates how these novelists use major and marginal figures to reflect upon the ways that institutional powers invoke episodes from the discovery and conquest to legitimate the present, and also to critique the recent historical past, especially in the case of Uruguay and Argentina, which endured military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s."--Jacket.

The Repeating Island

Author : Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822382059
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Repeating Island written by Antonio Benitez-Rojo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Alejo Carpentier

Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768826
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Alejo Carpentier written by Roberto González Echevarría and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier’s novels and stories are the enabling discourse of today’s Latin American narrative, and his interpretation of Latin American history has been among the most influential. Carpentier was the first to provide a comprehensive view of Caribbean history that centered on the contribution of Africans, above and beyond the differences created by European cultures and languages. Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, first published in 1977 and updated for this edition, covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two. González Echevarría offers detailed readings of the works La música en Cuba, The Kingdom of This World, The Lost Steps, and Explosion in a Cathedral. In a new concluding chapter, he takes up Carpentier’s last years, his relationship with the Cuban revolutionary regime, and his last two novels, El arpa y la sombra and La consagración de la primavera, in which Carpentier reviewed his life and career.

Myth and Archive

Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822321941
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Archive written by Roberto González Echevarría and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.

Carpentier's Proustian Fiction

Author : Sally Harvey
Publisher : Tamesis
ISBN 13 : 9781855660342
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Carpentier's Proustian Fiction written by Sally Harvey and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.

Killer Books

Author : Aníbal González
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788908
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Killer Books written by Aníbal González and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing and violence have been inextricably linked in Spanish America from the Conquest onward. Spanish authorities used written edicts, laws, permits, regulations, logbooks, and account books to control indigenous peoples whose cultures were predominantly oral, giving rise to a mingled awe and mistrust of the power of the written word that persists in Spanish American culture to the present day. In this masterful study, Aníbal González traces and describes how Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing's relation to violence and about their own relation to writing. Using an approach that owes much to the recent "turn to ethics" in deconstruction and to the works of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, he examines selected short stories and novels by major Spanish American authors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries: Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Manuel Zeno Gandía, Teresa de la Parra, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Julio Cortázar. He shows how these authors frequently display an attitude he calls "graphophobia," an intense awareness of the potential dangers of the written word.

Julio Cortázar

Author : Carlos J. Alonso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521452106
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Julio Cortázar written by Carlos J. Alonso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.

Imagination Beyond Nation

Author : Eva P. Bueno
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082299058X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Imagination Beyond Nation written by Eva P. Bueno and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can scholarly pursuit of soap operas and folk art actually reveal a national imagination? This innovative collection features studies of iconography in Mexico, telenovelas in Venezuela, drama in Chile, cinema in Brazil, comic strips and tango in Argentina, and ceramics in Peru. In examining these popular arts, the scholars gathered here ask the same broad questions: what precisely is a national culture at the level of the popular? The national idea in Latin America emerges from these pages as a problematic, divided one, worth sustained attention in the field of culture studies. Many different arts come forth in all their richness and vitality, compelling us to look, listen, and understand.

The Logic of Fetishism

Author : James J. Pancrazio
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755822
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Fetishism written by James J. Pancrazio and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a key figure in the foundation of contemporary Latin American fiction. By taking a critical position vis-a-vis the restitutionary current in Latin American studies, James Pancrazio provides a highly innovative re-reading of Carpentier's work.

Carpentier's Baroque Fiction

Author : Steve Wakefield
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661073
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Carpentier's Baroque Fiction written by Steve Wakefield and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spainbefore and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of theBaroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia

Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

Author : Doris Sommer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674536586
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas written by Doris Sommer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism.

Perspectives on Contemporary Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative

Author : Rolena Adorno
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300144962
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative written by Rolena Adorno and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV

A Twice-told Tale

Author : Santiago Juan-Navarro
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137330
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book A Twice-told Tale written by Santiago Juan-Navarro and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Iberian views of the age of conquest through literature and cinema

Latin America's New Historical Novel

Author : Seymour Menton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786271
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Latin America's New Historical Novel written by Seymour Menton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.