Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) |
Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
Men of maize : myth as time and language -- Borges and American violence -- Fathers and bridges over hell : Deep rivers -- Sandwiched between Proust and the mummy : seven notes and an epilogue on Carpentier's Reasons of state -- Political code and literary code : the testimonial genre in Chile today -- The rivers of Roa Bastos -- Someone writes to the future : meditations on hope and violence in García Márquez |
Summary |
Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden. A master of various literary forms, this collection draws together Dorfman's critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing. Spanning more than twenty years and arranged in chronological order, each essay is devoted to a single author--Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, José Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia Márquez, Roa Bastos--and one final essay looks at the "testimonial" or concentration camp literature from Chile.Praise for Ariel Dorfman"One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America."--Salman Rushdie"A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural perspective from comfortable American readers."--Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Herald Examiner"One of the six greatest Latin American novelists."--Jacobo Timmerman, Newsweek |
Analysis |
Spanish fiction |
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Central America |
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South America |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-247) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Essays originally written in Spanish or English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
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Spanish American literature.
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Fictie.
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Spaans.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Littérature hispano- américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Roman.
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Lateinamerika
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
90024936 |
ISBN |
9780822398127 |
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0822398125 |
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