Title Foundational fictions : the national romances of Latin America / Doris Sommer

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991] ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages) : illustrations Series Latin American literature and culture ; 8 Latin American literature and culture (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 8. Contents Part I: Irresistible romance -- Part II: love and country: an allegorical speculation -- Plagiarized authenticity: Sarmiento's cooper and others -- Amalia: valor at heart and home -- Sab C'est Moi -- O Guarani and Iracema: Brazil's two-faced indigenism -- Maria's disease: a national romance (con)founded -- Something to celebrate: national nuptials in Chile and Mexico -- Starting from scratch: late beginnings and early (t)races in Enriquillo, Cumanda, and Tabare -- Love of country: populism's revised romance in La Voragine and Dona Barbara -- "It's wrong to be right": Mama Blanca on fatherly foundations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Latin American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Latin America Nationalism in literature. Latin American fiction Literature and society Nationalism in literature Latin America Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520913868 0520913868 9780585271415 0585271410

Other Titles National romances of Latin America

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