Primitivism and identity in Latin America : essays on art, literature, and culture / edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas and José Eduardo González.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Camayd-Freixas, Erik.

González, José Eduardo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Primitivism in literature.

Primitivism.

Latin America--Civilization.

Latin America.

Civilization.

Primitivism--Latin America.

Physical Description:

xix, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Primitivism & identity in Latin America

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2000]

Contents:

Paradise subverted: the invention of the Mexican character / Roger Bartra

Between Sade and the savage: Octavio Paz's Aztecs / Amaryll Chanady

Under the shadow of God: roots of primitivism in early colonial Mexico / Delia Annunziata Cosentino

Of Alebrijes and Ocumichos: some myths about folk art and Mexican identity / Eli Bartra

Primitive borders: cultural identity and ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic / Fernando Valerio-Holguín

Dialectics of archaism and modernity: technique and primitivism in Angel Rama's Transculturación narrativa en América Latina / José Eduardo González

Narrative primitivism: theory and practice in Latin America / Erik Camayd-Freixas

Narrating the other: Julio Cortázar's "Axolotl" as ethnographic allegory / R. Lane Kauffmann

Jungle fever: primitivism in environmentalism; Rómulo Gallegos's Canaima and the romance of the jungle / Jorge Marcone

Primitivism and cultural production: future's memory; native people's voices in Latin American society / Ivete Lara Camargos Walty

Primitive bodies in Latin American cinema: Nicolás Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca / Luis Fernando Restrepo

Subliminal body: shamanism, ancient theater, and ethnodrama / Gabriel Weisz

Primitivist construction of identity in the work of Frida Kahlo / Wendy B. Faris

Mi andina y dulce Rita: women, indigenism, and the avant-garde in César Vallejo / Tace Megan Hedrick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0816520453

OCLC:

43539894