Latin American Literature
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Latin American Literature

Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism

  1. 284 pages
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eBook - ePub

Latin American Literature

Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism

About this book

Critical theory meets Latin American fiction in this bold and challenging analysis of literature and literary criticism through post-structuralist analysis. Focusing on Latin American literary and critical production from the 1890s to the 1990s, Bernard McGuirk highlights the confrontation between theory, politics and literature.The range of literatures discussed is extensive, including writings from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. The symptomatic differences between and within cultures are illuminated by analysis of texts by such authors as: César VallejoJorges Luis BorgesRubén DaríoPablo NerudaJulio CortåzarJoão Guimarães RosaSusana ThénonCarlos FuentesBernard McGuirk holds the Chair of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory at the University of Nottingham. He is currently President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781317799399
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Fore-Word: locating inequality Post-, trans-, intra-
  8. 1. Pre-: Sezving up meaning: a liberal humanist closure of Pablo Neruda’s ‘Oh vastness of pines’
  9. 2. Eurocentrism and the male gaze in Brazil: Other place, other plays: the ploy of alterity in Blaise Cendrars’ South Americans
  10. 3. On the meta-history of literature: ‘I know ... ’, ‘I seek ... ’, ‘I know not ...’: modemismo, modernidad and the poetics of discontinuity
  11. 4. Reading, misreading and the resistance to modernity: On misprision and intertextuality: from Rubén Darío to César Vallejo
  12. 5. Poetry, pedagogy and untranslatability: On Ă©criture and oralitĂ© in two poems of CĂ©sar Vallejo’s Trilce
  13. 6. Beyond structural influence: Borges and the purloined detective: ’tecs, lies, and video-hype
  14. 7. On the semi(er)otics of alterity: Beyond Lacanian limits: Julio Cortázar’s ‘The Other Heaven’
  15. 8. Mirror × scissors: Reflections on cuts from Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra
  16. 9. Subjectivity, history, ideology: Relocating the Self: ‘Borges and I’
  17. 10. Z/Z: On midrash and Ă©criture fĂ©minine in Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Emma Zunz’
  18. 11. Post-: Back to the suture: on the unseamliness of patriarchal discourse in Susana ThĂ©non’s Ova complĂ©ta
  19. Post-Postscript: space, self, other Latin America and the ‘third term’
  20. Index