Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture
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Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture

Jaime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides

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Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture

Jaime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides

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This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the late 1990s. Talk-show host Jaime Bayly's seven novels have scandalized Lima's society with their treatment of homosexuality and have attracted record sales throughout the Spanish-speaking world with their exciting re-creation of Lima slang and focus on McOndo themes. University lecturer Iván Thays has vigorously opposed this light narrative by providing a "high" cultural alternative. His three novels have played an important role in the regeneration of Peruvian culture since the fall from power of President Alberto Fujimori. Madrid-based Jorge Eduardo Benavides' narrative has offered an aesthetically challenging and explicitly politicized alternative. His marrying of aesthetics and politics stands in importance alongside Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas in terms of the mediation between culture and politics in Peru since the 1930s.. ROBERT RUZ completed his PhD at Cambridge University under the supervision of Geoffrey Kantaris. En este libro se ofrece la primera perspectiva del dinámico resurgimiento que ha experimentado la narrativa peruana desde finales de la década de los noventa. Las siete novelas de Jaime Bayly, presentador de televisión, han escandalizado a la sociedad limeña debido al tratamiento que en ellas se da al tema de la homosexualidad y han generado un récord de ventas por todo el mundo de habla hispana debido a su apasionante recreación del argot limeño y a su concentración en los temas del grupo McOndo. El profesor de universidad Iván Thays se ha opuesto firmemente a esta literatura light, ofreciendo en su lugar una alternativa culta. Sus tres novelas han desempeñado un importante papel en la regeneración de la cultura peruana desde la caída del poder del Presidente Alberto Fujimori. La narrativa de Jorge Eduardo Benavides, radicado en Madrid, ha presentado una alternativa estéticamente estimulante y explícitamente politizada. Por lo que respecta a la mediación entre la cultura y la política en el Perú desde la década de los años treinta, la labor de unificación de la estética y la política de Benavides se halla, en cuanto a importancia, al nivel de Mario Vargas Llosa y José María Arguedas.

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Information

Publisher
Tamesis Books
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781855661103
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781846153914

Table of contents

  1. FRONTCOVER
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. NOTE ON THE REFERENCE SYSTEM
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. 1. Homosexuality and Gay Identity in Bayly’s No se lo digas a nadie Fue ayer y no me acuerdo and La noche es virgen
  7. 2. Jaime Bayly: Postmodern Narrative Style and Mass Cultural Marketing
  8. 3. Iván Thays: Postmodern Peruvian Narrative of ‘High’ Culture
  9. 4. Jorge Eduardo Benavides: the Peruvian Political Novel Revisited
  10. CONCLUSION
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  12. INDEX

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