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Author:

Weiser, Frans author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.
Latin America--Historiography.
United States--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

""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 by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Global Latin/o Americas

ISBN:

0814214363
9780814214367
0814255752
9780814255759

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1119612594

LCCN:

2019041117

Locations:

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