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Author : Ester Gimbernat González
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante written by Ester Gimbernat González and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura J. Beard
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393057X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Acts of Narrative Resistance written by Laura J. Beard and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What makes Laura J. Beard’s work distinctive is her pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different countries and traditions. Her section on metafiction focuses on works by Helena Parente Cunha, of Brazil, and Luisa Futoranksy, of Argentina; the family sagas explored are by Ana María Shua and Nélida Piñon, of Argentina and Brazil, respectively; and the section on testimonio highlights narratives by Lee Maracle and Shirley Sterling, from different Indigenous nations in British Columbia. In these texts Beard terms "genres of resistance," women resist the cultural definitions imposed upon them in an effort to speak and name their own experiences. The author situates her work in the context of not only other feminist studies of women's autobiographies but also the continuing study of inter-American literature that is demanding more comparative and cross-cultural approaches. Acts of Narrative Resistance addresses prominent issues in the fields of autobiography, comparative literature, and women's studies, and in inter-American, Latin American, and Native American studies.
Author : Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390035
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Wandering Signifier written by Erin Graff Zivin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth- through late-twentieth-century literary works from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, and Nicaragua. Ultimately, Graff Zivin’s investigation of representations of Jewishness reveals a broader, more complex anxiety surrounding difference in modern Latin American culture. In her readings of Spanish American and Brazilian fiction, Graff Zivin highlights inventions of Jewishness in which the concept is constructed as a rhetorical device. She argues that Jewishness functions as a wandering signifier that while not wholly empty, can be infused with meaning based on the demands of the textual project in question. Just as Jews in Latin America possess distinct histories relative to their European and North American counterparts, they also occupy different symbolic spaces in the cultural landscape. Graff Zivin suggests that in Latin American fiction, anxiety, desire, paranoia, attraction, and repulsion toward Jewishness are always either in tension with or representative of larger attitudes toward otherness, whether racial, sexual, religious, national, economic, or metaphysical. She concludes The Wandering Signifier with an inquiry into whether it is possible to ethically represent the other within the literary text, or whether the act of representation necessarily involves the objectification of the other.
Author : Judit Bokser de Liwerant
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004154426
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism written by Judit Bokser de Liwerant and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu.The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities. This volume is also available in paperback.
Author : H. Weldt-Basson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349700
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Redefining Latin American Historical Fiction written by H. Weldt-Basson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism.
Author : M. Sierra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137122803
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Gendered Spaces in Argentine Women's Literature written by M. Sierra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book CLASicos written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Latin American Jewish Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana Teresa Torres
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137265
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Doña Inés Vs. Oblivion written by Ana Teresa Torres and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pegasus Prize for International Literature, this novel tells the history of a bitter family dispute, beginning in 18th century Caracas and spanning nearly two centuries. Translated from Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Author : J. Hoeg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601960
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World written by J. Hoeg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion. The relations between science and literature have been and continue to be central to understanding Hispanic civilization and culture. In spite of this, Science, Literature, and Film in the Spanish-Speaking World is the first and only book to treat this new and dynamic field from an Hispanic perspective. This unique volume opens the door to an entirely new focus in the study of Hispanic literature and culture.
Author : Rosario Ferré
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480481742
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The House on the Lagoon written by Rosario Ferré and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award: “A family saga in the manner of Gabriel García Márquez,” set in Puerto Rico, from an extraordinary storyteller (The New York Times Book Review). This riveting, multigenerational epic tells the story of two families and the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of Isabel Monfort and her husband, Quintín Mendizabal. Isabel attempts to immortalize their now-united families—and, by extension, their homeland—in a book. The tale that unfolds in her writing has layers upon layers, exploring the nature of love, marriage, family, and Puerto Rico itself. Weaving the intimate with the expansive on a teeming stage, Ferré crafts a revealing self-portrait of a man and a woman, two fiercely independent people searching for meaning and identity. As Isabel declares: “Nothing is true, nothing is false, everything is the color of the glass you’re looking through.” A book about freeing oneself from societal and cultural constraints, The House on the Lagoon also grapples with bigger issues of life, death, poverty, and racism. Mythological in its breadth and scope, this is a masterwork from an extraordinary storyteller.
Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466840099
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Christopher Unborn written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
Author : Claribel Alegra
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508569121
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Ashes of Izalco written by Claribel Alegra and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.
Author : Jean Pierre Barricelli
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
ISBN 13 : 9780873520911
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Interrelations of Literature written by Jean Pierre Barricelli and published by Modern Language Assn of Amer. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seymour Menton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786271
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
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.
Author : Erin Graff Zivin
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism written by Erin Graff Zivin and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last several decades have witnessed a reorientation of the political and a globalization of the cultural in Latin America, shifting literature's function as a homogenizing, citizen-forming institution to a more dispersed, fragmented, and (potentially) democratic and liberating practice. At the same time, and perhaps in response to this cultural shift, the field of Latin American literary studies has expanded to include cultural studies, postcolonial theory, performance studies, gender studies, Africana studies, and subaltern studies, at once expanding and disrupting the boundaries of literature, criticism, and of Latin America itself. In light of these dramatic transformations within a globalized Latin American culture, as well as within the field of Latin American literary studies itself, what value can we attribute to aesthetics today? Is a reconsideration of artistic creation a mere return to the hegemonic lettered city described by Angel Rama? Or can we begin to think about an "ethical potential" inscribed within the act of reading, that is, an encounter with otherness that irreversibly alters the reading subject?
Author : Naomi Jacobs
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809316076
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Character of Truth written by Naomi Jacobs and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the novel survive in an age when tales of historical figures and contemporary personalities dominate the reading lists of the book-buying public? Naomi Jacobs addresses this question in a study of writers such as William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, and Robert Coover, who challenge the dominance of nonfiction by populating their fictions with real people, living and dead. Jacobs explores the genesis, varieties, and implications of this trend in a prose as lively as that of the writers she critiques. Using as a case study Robert Coover’s portrait of Richard Nixon in The Public Burning, Jacobs addresses the important legal and ethical questions raised by this trend and applies contemporary libel law to the fictionalization of living people, such as Richard Nixon. She closes her study by speculating on the future of this device and of the novel.
