UID:
almahu_9947414938602882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511519581 (ebook)
Content:
How can we know the past? How can we speak of it in literary forms? Why should we want to? Concentrating on the past as both the subject of fiction and as a force for inscribing fiction, The Usable Past traces the ways in which writers self-consciously participate in the construction of an American canon. Successfully linking Latin American and North American fiction, Lois Zamora invokes authors as diverse in origin and manner as Carlos Fuentes and Willa Cather, Jorge Luis Borges and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sandra Cisneros and Mario Vargas Llosa to explore issues surrounding colonisation and independence, mestizaje and melting pot, domination and self-determination, and the ambivalence of history in a 'new' world. The Usable Past is an elegant examination of the historical attitudes and literary practices of writers located in American time and space - locations that yield insight into American literary visions and versions of history.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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pt. I. Anxiety of origins. The usable past : history as idea in the Americas -- For the record : novels, newspapers, narration -- Ancestral presences : magical romance/magical realism -- pt. II. Intertextuality and tradition. Synchronic structures : Mario Vargas Llosa, conversations in The cathedral ; Julio Cortázar, 62 : a model kit -- Fragmentary fictions : Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Woman hollering creek -- Clichés and community. Manual Puig : The kiss of the spider woman ; Luis Rafael Sáchez, Macho Comacho's beat -- Comparative conclusions : Baroque new worlds.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521582537
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519581
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