False documents : inter-American cultural history, literature, and the lost decade (1975-1992) /

""Examines the work of writers and journalists from Hispanic America, Brazil, and the US from the 1970s to 1990s who appropriated history as a tool for repositioning democracies in a hemispheric context in order to expose how governments controlled and misrepresented events"--Provided...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiser, Frans (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Global Latin/o Americas.
Temas:
1900-1999
Latin American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century.
Comparative literature > Latin American and American.
Comparative literature > American and Latin American.
Roman latino-américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Amérique latine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American fiction
Historiography
Latin American fiction
Literature and history
Latin America > Historiography.
United States > Historiography.
Amérique latine > Historiographie.
Latin America
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Interdependent methods: postwar cultural history, historical literature, and false documents
  • History's return: literary revisionism in North America, Hispanic America, and Brazil during the Lost Decade
  • The ends of Argentine democracy: the false memoir(s) and cultural hybridity behind Tomás Eloy Martínez's The Perón Novel
  • The "dialectics" of feminist Caribbean history: Laura Antillano, José Martí, and the Venezuelan Lost Decade
  • History at the periphery: postdictatorial literature and the abandoned generation of Ana Maria Machado's Tropical Sun of Liberty
  • Allegorizing Brazilian history: Silviano Santiago's In Liberty, invisible texts, and ideological patrols
  • The many deaths of Che Guevara: Jay Cantor's anxiety of origins and the limits of transnationalism
  • Renewing history? John Updike's critique of cultural studies and the two Americas in Memories of the Ford Administration

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