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Literature and Subjection
The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America
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Literature and Subjection
The Economy of Writing and Marginality in Latin America
About this book
In Literature and Subjection, Horacio Legras employs theoretical, philosophical, cultural, political, and historical analysis to assess the factors that have both facilitated and stifled the integration of peripheral experiences into Latin American literature. Legras examines a handful of contemporary authors who have attempted in earnest to present marginalized voices to the Western world, and evaluates the success or failure of these endeavors. His deep and insightful evaluation of key works by novelists Juan Jose Saer (The Witness), Nellie Campobello (Cartucho), Roa Bastos (Son of Man), and Jose Maria Arguedas (The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below), among others, provides a theoretical basis for understanding the plight of the author, the peripheral voice, and the confines of the literary medium. What emerges is an intricate discussion of the clash and subjugation of cultures and the tragedy of a lost worldview.
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LiteraturaTable of contents
- Contents
- 1. Literature, Subjection, and the Historical Project of Latin American Literature
- 2. Foundling Selves, Foundational Others Juan José Saer’s The Witness
- 3. Coloniality and the Empire of Letter
- 4. Literature as Presentation of the Subject
- 5. Guzman, Campobello, Muñoz: Literary Strategies in the Face of Revolution
- 6. The Cross of Literature in Paragauy: The Critical Legacy of Augusti Roa Bastos
- 7. The End of Rcognition: Arguedas and the Limits of Cultural Subjection
- Notes
- References
- Index