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

Published Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 390 pages) Series Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies Re-mapping the transnational. 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 : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US 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 Summary What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this construction and added layers of complexity that subvert any approach based on stereotypes? Combining American Studies, Canadian Studies, Latin American Studies, and Cultural Theory, Breinig relies on long scholarly experience to answer these and other questions. 'Hemispheric Imaginations', an ambitious interdisciplinary study of literary representations of Latin America as encounters with the other, is among the most extensive such studies to date. It will appeal to a broad range of scholars of American Studies Analysis literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-374) and index Notes In English This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Print version record Subject American fiction -- History and criticism Canadian fiction -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Canadian fiction International relations Literature SUBJECT Latin America -- In literature Latin America -- Relations -- America America -- Relations -- Latin America Subject America Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2016056397 ISBN 9781611689914 1611689910 1512600768 9781512600766

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