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Author:

Arias, Arturo, 1950-

Title:

Taking their word : literature and the signs of Central America / Arturo Arias.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxiii, 299 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Central American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Central American literature--Mayan influences.
National characteristics, Central American, in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.

Contents:

Revolutionary endgame : globalization and the trajectory of narrative -- Erotic transgression and recodification of values in Asturias's Mulata -- Identity or literariness : the emergence of a New Maya literature -- Authoring ethnicized subjects : the performative production of the subaltern self -- After the controversy : lessons learned about subalternity and the indigenous subject -- Reading truthfully : an American reading of a subaltern text -- The burning of the Spanish embassy : Máximo Cajal versus David Stoll -- The Maya movement -- Central American-Americans? : Latino and Latin American subjectivities -- American Central Americans : invisibility and representation in the Latino United States -- Conclusion: Forever modern, forever marginal.

ISBN:

0816648492 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816648498 (pb : alk. paper)
0816648484 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816648481 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007004495

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)