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Author:

Breinig, Helmbrecht, author.

Title:

Hemispheric imaginations : North American fictions of Latin America / Helmbrecht Breinig.

Publisher:

Dartmouth College Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvii, 390 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Latin America--In literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Canadian fiction--History and criticism.
Latin America--Relations--America.
America--Relations--Latin America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Alterity and Identity: Reflections on Approaching the Other -- Foundational Narratives: Some Versions of Columbus -- Invasive Methods: The Opening of Latin America in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century US Literature -- Representations of the Mexican Revolution in US Literature -- Nature and Civilization: Ninteenth-Century Travelers and Twentieth-Century Escapists -- Gendered Perceptions of Latin America in Twentieth-Century Literature -- The Post-Vietnam Era: Versions of Realism -- The Postmodern Response: Magical Realism and Metafiction -- Splintered Foundations: Postmodern and Native American Versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America: Malcolm Lowry and the Other as Symbolic Field -- Post-Vietnam and Twenty-First-Century Canadian Visitors.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

ISBN:

1611689724
9781611689723
1611689902
9781611689907

OCLC:

(OCoLC)967682328

LCCN:

2016027168

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)