A world in words, a life in texts : revisiting Latin American cultural heritage : festschrift in honuor of Peter R. Beardsell / Victoria Carpenter, (ed.).
Essays. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- National identity as textual construction in Visíon de Anáhuac (1519) by Alfonso Reyes -- Configuring the self as public intellectual in José Vasconcelos's Ulises criollo -- Rodó's gaze on Europe -- The state and the muse: Trilce VI and the politics of poetry -- Juan Rulfo's critique of patriarchal masculinity in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico: 'El llano en llamas' (1953) and Pedro Páramo (1955) -- Temporal permutations in Octavio Paz's 'Piedra de sol' (1957) -- Unfinished business: Lagarita sin cola (2007), Donoso's lost novel -- History and hysteria and in Fernando del Paso's Noticias del Imperio (1987) -- Black magic and the black market in contemporary Cuba -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"This volume presents a number of close readings of Latin American literary and cultural phenomena. The overarching theme of the collection is the revision of the accepted view of Latin American national identities as represented in twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. The book examines the complexity of national identities forged among political crises, economic upheaval and intercultural influences. The essays included here focus upon internal contradictions of national identity and the factors contributing to this discord. Among these are the nature of the Latin American intellectual, Latin American modernity and exile, and the psychological underpinning of the re-creation of history. Some of the chapters challenge the existing theoretical framework for Latin American literary analysis by employing non-literary theories to analyse hitherto overlooked textual anomalies. The book is a Festschrift for Professor Peter R. Beardsell, reflecting the importance of his contribution to Latin American literary and cultural studies." --cover page [4].
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