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Maarten Van Delden , Yvon Grenier

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9780826592590

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English

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The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist in closer proximity than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world. The apparently seamless blending of literature and politics is reflected in the explicitly political content of much of the continent's writing, as well as in the highly visible political roles played by many Latin American intellectuals.

Yet the authors of this book argue that the relationship between the two realms is much more complex and fraught with tension than is nowadays recognized. In examining these tensions, and in revealing the diverse ways in which literature and politics intersect in the Latin American cultural tradition, Gunshots at the Fiesta offers a lively challenge to the current tendency--especially strong in the U.S. academy--to read Latin American literature through a narrowly political prism.

The authors argue that one can only understand the nature of the dialogue between literature and politics if one begins by recognizing the different logics that operate in these different domains. Using this idea of the different logics of politics and literature as a guiding thread, Van Delden and Grenier offer bold new readings of major authors such as José Martí, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as compelling interpretations of works by less-frequently-discussed figures such as Claribel Alegría, Marisol Martín del Campo and Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda.

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Publié par

Vanderbilt University Press

Date de parution

27 août 2009

EAN13

9780826592590

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

GUNSHOTSAT THE FIESTA Literature and Politics in Latin America

Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier

GunsoTs àT Te FîesTà

Gunshots at the Fiesta Literature and Politics in Latin America

Maarten van Delden and Yvon Grenier

Vanderbilt University Press Nashville

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ConTenTs

Acknowledgments ix Preface xi

Part I Introduction  Politics and Literature Some Conceptual Tools   he Politics of Contemporary Latin Americanism 

Part II Foundational Narratives  José Martí and His Legacy   How to Read La Malince 

Part III Aestetics, Liberalism, Modernity he Lîterary and Polîtîcal Career of Octavîo Paz  From Poetry to Politics he Romantîc Lîberalîsm of Octavîo Paz   he Literary Intellectual in Democratizing Mexico   he Incomplete End of Modernity of Octavio Paz 

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Gunsots at te Fiesta

Part IV Carlos Fuentes Lîterature, Pluralîsm, Identîty  Literature and te Political Apprenticesip of Carlos Fuentes   Carlos Fuentes Pan-Hîspanîsm în te Age of Multîculturalîsm

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Part V Literary and Political Imagination in te Latin American New Novel  Scenes of Instruction in Gabriel García Márquez   he Private and te Public Marîo Vargas Llosa on Lîterature and Polîtîcs   Claribel Alegría and Ricardo Piglia Experîmental Wrîtîng and Polîtîcal Commîtment 

Conclusion A Dîalogue on Lîterature and Polîtîcs

Notes  Bibliograpy Index 

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Acknowledgments

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