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Gunshots at the fiesta : literature and politics in Latin America /

The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Delden, Maarten, 1958-
Otros Autores: Grenier, Yvon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1, Introduction:
  • Politics and literature: some conceptual tools
  • The politics of contemporary Latin Americanism;
  • pt. II, Foundational narratives:
  • Jose Martí and his legacy
  • How to read La Malinche;
  • pt. III, Aesthetics, liberalism, modernity : the literary and political career of Octavio Paz
  • From poetry to politics : the romantic liberalism of Octavio Paz
  • The literary intellectual in democratizing Mexico
  • The incomplete end of modernity of Octavio Paz
  • pt. IV, Carlos Fuentes : literature, pluralism, identity:
  • Literature and the political apprenticeship of Carlos Fuentes
  • Carlos Fuentes : pan-Hispanism in the age of multiculturalism;
  • Literary and political imagination in the Latin American new novel:
  • Scenes of instruction in Gabriel García Márquez
  • The private and the public : Mario Vargas Llosa on literature and politics
  • Claribel Alegría and Ricardo Piglia : experimental writing and political commitment;
  • Conclusion: A dialogue on literature and politics.